Month: November 2023

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight. He is the guest on Stephen Colbert. It’s been eight years already since Letterman stopped hosting Late Show.

Dave’s been on a bunch of other shows, including The Drew Barrymore Show, The View, Kimmel, Late Night with Seth James Cordon, but he has not yet returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater. That’ll change tonight. Colbert himself broke the news. Some news reports say it’s not clear what Letterman is coming on to talk about, but I’m guessing Letterman is auctioning off the marquee for the Et Sullivant Theater, right, so that would be a good reason to return to the Ed Sullivant Theater. I’m guessing that’s what that’s about.

We’ll find out tonight. The big announcement that came out Friday. I had mentioned to you on Saturday that I saved it for today. Not sure why San Francisco Sketch Fest picked a Friday to announce these things, but they have announced the light up for the twenty twenty four Comedy Festival taking place in San Francisco January eighteenth through February fourth. I have done that festival in the past.

It is fantastic. You should go. We have spent a lot of time here telling you about it. More than two hundred shows. Special events this year include Eric Idol in his first live North American show in seven years, joined by his friend and collaborator Jeff B.

Davis, for a one night performance featuring music, conversation, and scenes, including the world premiere of have Never Before Seen Monty Python, Sketch That’s Interesting, Comedy Icons. The kids in the Hall will bring sketches, stories, and songs to Sketch Fest. Performing is the full cast and also in solo shows. The State Hits and Misses features the nineties favorites performing rare never before seen sketch bitches and the Giant Misfires. Theatrical parodies include The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love It and Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist.

Some podcasts will be there, including Triumph, the insult comic Dog with guest weird Alt. Triumph had a podcast Is That a thing. Where’s my phone? I didn’t know that was a thing. Did you know that was a thing?

I do do this show every day, and I research this stuff, and I have an ego, and I look at the podcast chart, especially under comedy. Let’s see here, let’s make a poop. It does seem to be a thing. It put out an episode in December of twenty nineteen that had Pete Davidson on it, and in June of twenty twenty it put out Quarantine Squares. So I guess the weird Al will be the third episode of this.

I guess it is a podcast with an atypical schedule that explains why it’s not on my radar. This has nothing to do with comedy, but music. Programming includes Michael Shannon and Jason or Ducci performing two separate classic RAM albums, Murmur and Reckogning over two nights, so that’s neat. Returning festival favorites back to comedy include Asian af Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, The Black Version, Joel Kim Booster, David Cross, Fake Ted Talks, Joe Firestone, Futurama, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Judge, John Hodgman, Mark Maher and Eugene Merman, Do’ll Say Sloan, paull Off, Tom Jinny Yang and the Proverbial many more. The SF Sketch Fest is a yearly spotlight of twelve top comedians, is once again stacked, featuring Emma Arnold, Greg Barris, Katrina Davis, Mike Drucker, Mohanned Alshiki, Joel, Nicole Johnson, Liz Meely, Claire Okaine, Just Tom, Moe Welch, and Paige Weldon.

Later in the release, we get more of a bullet point Format’d be a little easier for me to fly through special events and tributes. Eric Idle told you about the Kids in the Hall, Unplugged, the Kids in the Hall scenes they wouldn’t let us do? An Afternoon with Amber rufferin the State tells you about that sketching. Improv comedy includes Beverly Live, The Big Team, The Black Version, Britannic Convoy, Dinosaur Improv. That show includes Jason Manzukus and Paul Sheer, among others.

Drunk Theater, George prov with Connor Ratliffe, Gethard and Sager Girl God, The Groundlings, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Killing Myle Lobster, Spawn Tour Co with Paul F. Tompkins, Super Married, Theme Park Improv with Ian Brennan, Rachel Dratch, Oscar Nuniez and a bunch of others. Time to Kill as a sketch comedy show. There are also variety and game shows including Asian af ask a Magician, Battle of the Wizards, The Bay Area pun Off, Black Men Can’t Jump Brew ha Ha, the comedy drinking game show with Matt Bronger, A Close Shave with Heaven, A super serious night of poetry and comedy. Kurt Broneller and Eugene Merman are on that show.

Comedian Feud I Guess That’s Like Family Feud. The guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Sishu’s Mada, Let’s See Lauren Lupkiz, Tony Newsom Blair, Soci David Wayne’s World of Wonder is a Night of magic, comedy, music and other delights. Filipino af Jepper Gay, Love It with Spikey and Miner and Honeyblutes on Jepper Gay is Hilarious, Love It Knees Up with Chris Tierner, Maniac Bowl, Okay, Who Did It? With Joe Firestone?

Self Help Me with Jenny Yang South Asian af Tinder Law with Lane Moore and David Cross, The Traventure Zone A Night of Dungeons and Dragons and also comedians and Vroyotopia with Paul F. Tompkins. A bunch of podcasts and talk shows. Let’s see what you might have heard of Doug Love’s movies, The George Lucas Talk Shows, a lot of fun. Hello from the Magic Tavern, I Love My Kid Butt with Kurt Brunaller, Megan Galli and Chris Garcia.

Wow, Chris Garcia, I haven’t heard that name in a while. He was a new face at Montreal. Oh, I’m going back. I think it was twenty fifteen. From memory, I thought he was going to have a much bigger career than he has.

Mosha Casher More Paul F. Tompkins talking Simpsons. He oh, is this racist? There’s some music in comedy shows. Let me see if I could pick the comedy out of here really quickly.

Off Book the Improvised Musical. That’s a fantastic podcast. I’m a big fan of that one. Stupid Songs and Stories with Kevin McDonald’s The Benson Movie Interruption. We’ll cover fast x Futurama’s twenty fifth anniversary Spectacular with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, David Herman and others including Billy West.

Outtake O Rama is described as infabous celebrity outtakes with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, Maurice LaMarsh and Billy West, Fake Ted Talks, Matt Bronger again, Guy Brainham and some others. Portlight is a storytelling series with Christella Alonso, Chris Garcia, Bob Odenkirk and Moore. A show called So Say We All, Vamp nonfiction showcase, So Say We All as a catration Battlestar Galactica. I wonder if that is involved. I don’t know, no, and we’re up to the stand up comedy section.

Are you getting the sense yet that this thing is huge? That’s why I didn’t cram it in on Saturday? This is its own thing, all right. The comedians include Aaron Chen Bad Indian, a Native American comedy show with Joshua Emerson, Blabermouth with Phil Griffinson, Red Scott, Brett Gilman, The Comedians with Disabilities Act, David Cross and Friends. DJ Jimmers been playing him over on the Live One app.

I like DJ Lott. They’ll say Sloan, Fun Voices with ron Funches and Blair, soci Hot Sets with Ronica Kowaikowski and Sam Clark, An Hour with Josh Johnson, Jennif Friedman, Not Funny, Joe, Kimbooster and Friends, John Glazer’s Smoothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog, Mark Marin all In is the name of that show, Maria Bamford, Matt Bronger again, Eugene Merman, Resistance is Fertile with Brooke Heinechin and Luisa Isabel Todd, Barry’s Half Joking Tour, Zenabe Johnson’s Kids Shows and Moe Williams and The Story Time All Stars Live with w Came On, Bell D’ll Say Sloan, Weird, Al Yankovic and more. Skesh Fest San Francisco, January eighteenth through February fourth, at Many venues. About two months ago, I made a pledge that on Mondays I would remember to tell you guys what I’m playing over on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live one app. If you don’t know what that is.

The app is free. It’s called Live one. On the app, there’s a show. It’s called the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this, except I can actually play the comedians bits there.

So if I tell you a story about Jim Gaffigan, then I play some JIMN. Gaff again. Now, since I made this promise, I have forgotten every other week to do it. Like I totally forget. I get in the car Monday, I drive to the Donuts chain.

I’m like, ah, you forgot to plug the Live one show. But this being in every other week, for some reason, every other week I remember to do it. On this week’s show, Brad Williams Bert Krascher talking about that whole thing with the Aditarad that I told you about on here. Kevin Hart, winner of the Mark Twain Prize. New podcast from Daniel Tosh and Dan Soder give an excuse to play those guys.

Thomson Gore announced his tour, so I’ll play him some Thanksgiving stuff. Jim Gaffigan talking about grievy. Andrew Santino thinks you should own your own material. Anthony Jesslink talking about getting older. Eddie Murphy’s got a Christmas movie coming out.

Jay Farrow on impressions and a clip from Spam a loot, So it’s the weekly comedy thing. On the Live one app.

Speaking of Daniel Tosh, he was describing his podcast, which is off to good …

He says, I’ll be interviewing people who I find interesting, so not celebrities and certainly not comedians. If you’re looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that’ll make you think, this isn’t the one for you. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. I know right well. The Des Moines Register said, hey, remember a while back there was the hottest mom in a video that went viral, part of the whole Matt Rife viral thing.

There’s this woman, she’s a hot mom. Whatever. Anyway, Matt was in ames Iowa on his tour and he asked the crowd if Christina the Hot mom was present, what do you know she was? If you’re in New York City, you remember the comedy club Danger Fields. I wound up there on the night of my prom.

After the prom, you know, you’re seventeen, you gotta find someplace who’ll let you in at one in the morning and maybe look the other way on your choices of beverage. You know what I mean yeah, anyway, Dangerfields closed in twenty twenty, but a new owner is going to open a comedy club on the same site. It will not be called Dangerfields. It’ll have a new name. We don’t know what the name is yet, but the new two hundred person club on First Avenue sixty first Street on the east side of Manhattan will remain open until two am on Fridays and Saturdays, with shows most likely wrapping up around midnight.

That’s to keep the neighbors calm and were like, well, comedy club. Look, there was a comedy club there until you moved in last year. Relax. Comedy fans will be able to supplement their laughter with or dervs and upscale cocktails. The owner said.

The club will focus on featuring a modern, inclusive comedy scene, showcasing up and comers as well as established veterans, which is every club. They’ll be open mic hours earlier in the evening. There will not be a late show during the week, and the article for some reason points out that soon directly across the street a new store will open. That new store is a cannabis shop. Rodney Dangerfield himself opened his club in nineteen sixty nine, providing the neighborhood with fifty years of laughs from stars such as Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Roseanne and Chris Rock.

If you saw the twenty nineteen movie The Joker, remember The Joker does some comedy that was filmed at Dangerfields, but Dangerfields went out in October twenty twenty. You may remember there was this big penny and we didn’t really leave the house and go to comedy clubs. Congratulations to George Costanza who has made Cooperstown. No, not Chason Alexander, and no, not the Baseball Museum Hall of Fame or whatever it’s called. This is George Costanza, the character who now appears at the Cooperstown Heroes of Baseball wax Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

They pride themselves as being the only wax museum dedicated to baseball. Makes sense, you may recall it. George Costanza worked for the New York Yankees in the nineteen nineties. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcastspotify, YouTube, overcast podcast relegator shows See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m hinting Mack with your Daily comedy, and he was, Let’s play a game. Can I finish recording this episode before my wife comes home? Let’s see Upworthy ask the question you were probably wondering, which is, what do you get when you combine comedian Trevor Noah, Tennis legend Roger Federer, and the world famous clockmaking, chocolate brewing, alpine skiing symbol of neutrality Switzerland? I feel like doing Karnack now Trevor Noah, Roger Feederer and Switzerland.

And then you rip open an envelope and you read, apparently aid’s a lightfully charming train ride through the Swiss countryside. What are you talking about, John Well, Trevor Noah and Roger Federer are in a tourism ad. Just last week I told you Trevor Noah was the spokesperson for South Africa tourism. This isn’t that at all. This is Switzerland.

It’s an ad for the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland. Let’s listen. I’m sorry, Roger, but this script just isn’t funny TV. How many times doff to tell you it’s a It’s not supposed to be funny. Gentlemen, we are going to start to shoot on the train in four minutes.

I cour thank you. We’ll see in five four, yes, four minutes. Both Trevor and Federer are half Swiss. As these sketch continues, they appear to hop on the wrong train while arguing about whether or not the ad they’re filming is funny, or whether it even should be. I watched it.

I thought it was a lot of fun. It’s been a bad week for reviews. Don’t blame me on this one, Blame the Daily Beast. They write SNL Comedy Team, please don’t destroy bomb their movie debut ouch The Treasure of Foggy Mountain is proof that it’s not easy extending sketch stick to feature length. The Daily Beast writes, a frustrating lack of consistency holds please don’t destroy back.

As they introduce themselves to an audience unfamiliar with their rhythms shaped by the condensed format of TikTok with an approximate fifty to fifty ratio of inspired silliness to repetitive edits as jokes, they’re caught between a measure of evident talent and the temptation to fall back on their safest tendencies the beast continue. So many of the twenty first centuries big studio comedies fit themselves into the grooves shared which we I mean old chums trying to crack each other up, a mode that only works when we’re part of the gang. Otherwise, the riffing starts to grate as idle self amusement, and the viewers get to thinking about the difference between an eight funniness and the skills required to craft the film. All of which is to say it should surprise no one to learn that this motion picture was produced by jud appatow Wow. Ralph Barbosa picked late Friday afternoon to announce a tour.

Why so much news came out on Friday, I don’t know, but he’s announced dates for the twenty twenty four Super Cool Ass Tour. Love It the Paressor Lease Umple brags that Ralph Barbosa Cowabunga, released October thirty first, spent two weeks in Netflix’s Top ten TV chart, debuting at number three. The tour kicks off January twelfth in San Diego.

Also visit Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, al Passo, Albuquerque, …

On May twenty fifth, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. You haven’t mentioned him at all lately. I know, right well, good news. The New York Times wrote an article about him and wrote, Matt Rife f leans into a sex appeal. You could see it the swaggering way he poses for photos or shows off his biceps like a boy band star.

He invites you to admire him. It says from the stage that his audience is mostly women. Part of his charm is that he speaks like a teen beat cover boy, saying things like homophobias a massive pet peeve of mine. His debut special was called OnlyFans, and he flirts with the audience. He posted workout clips on social media and uses a topless photo for his Instagram avatar.

Can you hear the side switching? Like? Uh? The Battlerife backlash has begun. I’m declaring it wherever you write now check your watch.

This is when the matte Rife backlash started. The Times writes, if Zoolanders started doing open mics, he would act like Matt Rife. This is touchy territory because we already live in a world where every young musical star is attractive, male politicians needs to be tall to get elected president, and the advantages for actors pleasing to look at or taken for granted. Now, Comedy two is the algorithm gonna make the out of shape nebbish stand up and endangered species. Good question.

I mentioned a few times all week about Leslie Jones and The Daily Show and there being no buzz. Huffington Post said maybe they figured it out. On Thursday, Leslie was joined by Jordan Klepper and they did the headlines together. Huff Poe writes, it’s not clear if that was a one time team up or if the two were under consideration as permanent hosts, but the duo brought enough energy to power a city. I’ll chime in, They’re not going to pay two hosts.

Why would you do that? You’re not going to today at town Hall, New York City. It’s the Arab American Comedy Festival North Jersey. Dot com rits co creators Mayson Zaid and Dean Obadalla we’re still tackling bigotry through comedy twenty years after they founded this thing. Zayid said, I think in this time where we’re being dehumanized and we’re being vilified, it’s such an incredible opportunity for us to be us until the audience laugh with us.

Today’s show will feature a roster of Arab American comics and a fireside chat with actor Tony Chaloub. Dean said, we’re hoping people outside of our community who want to come and just laugh at a really good comedy show also come out. Zayid said she campaigned for Joe Biden, but since the war in Gaza, she’s been iced out by Biden and his team. She joked, my other ex boyfriends are so jealous of Joe Biden right now because he has taken over my stand up comedy. I don’t even talk about them anymore.

Oh yeah, Joe Biden totally tricked me. We were like arm in arm in the White House looking gorgeous in May, and then October comes around and you know, he totally ghosted me and turned my family into ghosts. Wow, wait, my wife is home. I told you that was gonna happen. I guess we’re gonna take the break here, be right back where were we?

It’s twenty five minutes later in my life for you those about three minutes. It’s a lot later now, John, Why don’t you just do it edit because that’s not fun. I want you to know what actually happened. I was telling you about the Arab American Comedy Festival. Do you know what Dalla said?

My jokes really go through the spectrum of right after nine to eleven. The jokes were all about, hey, we’re just like you, don’t beat us up. I mean literally, that’s one of the jokes. Then over time they became a little bit more about pushing back against bigotry. Over the years, festival alumni have included Pete Dominic, media commentator and podcast host.

I hired Peace to be a host for me at Sirius xm Rami Usef and Mohmair also appeared at the festival. There’ll be some upcoming shows. If you’re not in New York City today, visit Arabiccomedy dot com. Feard O is tough to Instagram on Thursday to share a note and captured it for the five people who care. Someone asked me today why comedians don’t host film awards in India.

Now many comedians, myself included, have scripted every film award we have. The point of having comedians host the Oscars or Film Awards is that for a night a jester would humanize the most beautiful, chosen people in the world since they were being celebrated already. That’s when any joke is a punch up. Here. Egos won’t take a joke from anyone who’s not at their level, so you go big.

Ironically, the bigger the star who hosts the trigger it’s going to be. So a huge star hosting works for people in the room, just not always funny for the people watching, simply because the power imbalance is off. It’s only funny when the host has less power. So you’re deciding between who you want the show to be funny for the viewers or the winners. Eric Farwell writes for The Internder Pound Gorilla and caught a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival and got around a recapping them.

That’s not a dig, Eric, I’m just explaining to the audience why I didn’t mention this a week ago. Eric writes Tina Frimmel and Robin Tran headline two very different shows, crushed in two different venues, and at comics who were well on their way open or co headlined with them. Chanelle Ali has always turned the room into a bunch of astronauts, because after you see her set, a lot of other comedy doesn’t quite the same way. Stacy Kaye was a student erradite, which is to say, professionally funny in a really unique way. Notice I’m glossing over a lot, but I’m just excited to write about how good Tran and Fremo were.

Okay, when it comes to Tina Frimmel, there might not be anyone killing it as hard as her working in New York right now. There’s a unique rhythm to her sets that can crescendo and fall she wants, and by utilizing it as a tool in her jokes, there are opportunities to juice align or let things sit a bit longer. They make it feel opponent, alive and exciting. One of the best things about the way she’s used her unique accouterments of her speaking voice is to make the audience lean in to hear her. There’s such power in this and by having the audience go to her, she can take time to ratchet up anticipation and destroy Robin.

Tran blends the style of nineteen ninety and early aughts club jokes around a core part of her identity as a trans woman, getting to see her run a set that dealt with things like the particular of her experience as a queer person as well as a queer person who loves wrestling in M and M with the verve and edge of someone like Greg Giraldo, who helped me to champion her as the future of comedy. Even more, Trean is gentle but cranky, and it lends the comedy of fun prickliness. Watching her sidle up to lightly dark ideas about her dead friend with humble confidence, managing to both be the hero and a bit of a heal is funny every single time. Some other folks. Eric Farwell wrote about Mita Johari was lucky to have such an attentive and appreciative fan base in Brooklyn, But I’m still not convinced we deserve her brilliance.

She’s operating on rarefied level or it.

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Also, like Sidney Washington And wrote in Sunday Set, she had a lot of great …

In a story about seeing someone get slapped on the subway, she takes time to clarify the slap, describing it as a comic book smack with the word slap written above the victim’s head. It’s such a delightful and silly joke, but it takes a keen eye to recognize that this splash of color in the joke will help. It’s so easy to miss, but Washington knows what she’s after, and it kills just a little bit harder because she’s so thoughtful about what each line needs and from exclaim Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous ski collision lawsuit, it’s becoming a musical. You may recall earlier this year, Paltrow was found not responsible for a twenty sixteen ski accident that left a retired optometrist with four broken ribs, a concussion, and permanent brain damage after an eight day court case. In the civil suit, the optometrist alleged that the goop guru was it fault for him crashing in a her from behind on the slopes of Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah.

Paltrow’s victory saw her awarded a symbolic one dollar plus legal fees. Well, now it’s a musical. It’s called Gwyneth Coast Skiing. It’ll premiere at the Pleasants in London’s West End on December thirteenth. The score features original music I would hope so, I mean, what are you gonna do?

Play Bohemian Rhapsody? Of course. It features original music, a synopsis of the story of love, betrayal, skiing and Christmas reads. She’s the goop founding Shakespeare Loving, consciously uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired autometrist from Utah.

In twenty sixteen, they went skiing on the slopes of Deer Valley. The World’s collided, and so did they? Literally? Oh one more story from Stuff dot co dot NZ aka New Zealand Stuff. They ask, are Jerry Seinfeld seats the most expensive tickets ever sold to New Zealand.

I haven’t busted out half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld for a while. If you’re a new listener, most people’s Jerry Seinfeld’s impression is, Hey, do you ever noticed that mineus? The slow burning angry Jerry, and as I described the impression, it is half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. I’m not rich little here, I’m no Frank Calliando, but here we go as half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld, New Zealand. Stuff rights, so no singer the Concert of d Tickets seam to go out in price with every passing year and fork it out the big bucks for big names, something most people are used to dog.

But would you pay at your fifty dollars, say Jerry Seinfeld. That’s a question many fans are being faced with as they rush to get tickets to the comedian’s first New Zealand show since twenty seventeen. Jerry will do two shows in June, one in Auckland and one in christ Church. An in demand ticket for Rose six would set you back seven hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety New Zealand currency since four to seventy five. Stuff says, eight hundred and forty nine ninety is a lot of money for between ninety minutes and two hours of comedy, the usual length of a Seinfeld show on this tour.

That works out to between seven and nine dollars per minute. Okay, if you’re curious, and I know you are. I did the conversion on Friday afternoon, converting the New Zealand currency dollars into US dollars. Seinfeld ticket five hundred and nine bucks. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chinning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I gotta stop grabbing a handful of peanut m and ms before I record these things. I went up clearing my throat a million times. Let’s take a look at Late Night, Jimmy Fallon said.

Ahead of Thanksgiving, the TSA has announced they’re predicting the busiest holiday travel season ever. And yeah, a classy move. Southwest cut right to the chase and canceled all their flights. Love it, kim All. More than thirty million Americans are expected to travel by playing over the holiday, and every one of them is in your boarding group, fell And apparently the airport’s going to be so busy that Liguardia might even buy a second great bin.

Hilarious new topic from Leslie Jones hosting the Daily Show and getting no help whatsoever from the writers. This is bad. Santo’s got caught spending campaign money on botox and OnlyFans. And this is on top of him stealing credit cards, wire fraud and identity theft. When he goes to jail the Alaskam, what are you in for?

And He’s gonna be like everything that’s a hack joke. It’s not good Seth Meyer’s new top President Biden, Chinese President g Jinping agreed to re establish military communications. It’s what Biden is calling the greatest US collaboration since Rush Hour. Love It. David Letterman will be the guest on Stephen Colbert on Monday Night.

This announced by Stephen Colbert on Twitter. I’ve already cleared my throat five times. We’re what A minuted in a very very robust Saturday edition of this No filler at all today. There was a lot of news and a lot came out on Friday afternoon, including an amazing lineup for San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. I can’t believe they announced that on a Friday.

I will save that for Monday’s podcast. I also found it curious that they waited till a Friday to announce Trevor Noah as a new Netflix special and it will be out next month, December nineteenth. Where Was I will be Trevor Noah’s fourth comedy special for Netflix. Official description. Trevor Noah shares his hilarious experiences from his recent travels around the world, ranging from foreign national anthems to varying cultural Norms.

The specials filmed at the Fox Theater in Detroit. I told you the other day Bert Krascher went and grabbed the woman who was protesting the I did a rod race at a Las Vegas F one race event. Craziness bird explain what was going on. He spoke to Deadline and he said, when we got done, someone at Netflix came to me and they’re like, hey, you’re going viral. And I was like, for what, and they’re like the protester.

Krayscher said, I literally, honestly didn’t even think about it. I really don’t have a recollection of it other than being in production mode and being like, hey, you can’t get the shot. It was such an interesting thing because they had all these celebrities in the pit lane, which is what they called it, and I was supposed to do interviews with everyone. When those people came running out, this is gonna sound really crazy. I kept thinking to myself when I was sitting there, Man, this is where the Las Vegas shooting was.

This is crazy. If you’re gonna do a shooting, you could kill a ton of celebrities right now. While hoping to protect those participating, Krasier hoped to minimize contact with a protester. He said, I thought it was just like I was moving one of my daughters. I was just like, here we go.

I wasn’t going to touch her body, so I was trying to grab her arms and move her away. And man, that snapshot looks totally different. It looks like I leveled her. All I remember saying was like, were they protesting me? I did a rod?

Then I was like, wow, that’s crazy. Did I really just put my foot in the political ring regarding that I did a rod? Like, I have no feelings about the I did a rod. Ever, all of a sudden, I’m like, f that did arod is a mainstay of North America. Not on my watch, baby.

The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, announced it will be preserving the archival collection from Don rickles estate. Awesome, that’s really cool. The collection spans from the fifties to the two thousands. It includes rare photographs, correspondents, creative papers, and wardrobe. The centerpiece of the collection is more than forty photo and memorabilia albums assembled by Don and his wife Barbara.

The handcrafted books chronicled Don rickles rise to fame, as a young comic, honing his craft and culminating his later years as the comedy community’s beloved elder statesman. Some more items a stage warned tuxedo and a neon characture of the comedian that appeared during his on stage decordering his live performances. There’s an interactive feature that insults museum goers with never before heard audio recorded by Don. Shortly before his passing, National Comedy Center Executive director Jerny Gunderson said, mister warmth, the Merchant of Venom, the Emperor of insults, by any name and by any measure, Don Rickles was an extraordinary artist who brought laughtered to millions over six decades. Rickles comedy was relentlessly funny.

He was a true original, beloved by his audiences and by the comedy community. Gunderson added, to be insulted by John Riggles was a badge of honor. Bob Newhart throw in some quoted Don was my best friend. He was called the Merchant of venom, but the truth was he was just the kindest man. I know that he would have been quite honored and very proud of his career.

Collection preserved and displayed at the National Comedy Center, Jimmy Kimmel in on this set. Not only was Don the funniest man alive, he is the funniest man not alive. Jeff Ross quoted. He was America’s doctor. He helped us laugh at ourselves.

He brought people together, he brought couples together, he brought races together. That’s incredibly healing. Above all was spiritual, not just the comics, but for his fans, meeting Don Rickles was like meeting the Pope, the Pope of Fumor. He’s the grand Master, the bald hat on Mount Roastmore, the black belt in busting chops, the Sultan of insultin and the release as full quote at Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles. How much more did he say?

I’m clicking on it. I clicked the page you were looking is not found. Hmmm. In fact, Comedycenter dot org slash Rickles doesn’t exist. What’s going on?

Conspiracy? I got this release from the Comedy Center. Did something happen they sent it to me? I didn’t make this up? Huh.

I’m intrigued, all right. I have now searched on the Comedy Center website for Don Rickles. And here’s the press release. Here’s the Jeff Ross thing with the same quote. I don’t know.

Sarah Silverman stated, Don Rickles act could have never worked if there wasn’t love behind it. It may have been a sarcastic nickname, but he truly was mister Warmth. And of course a quote from John Stamos, famous Beach Boys drummer Don Rickles was one of my most important, unconventional friends for life. He’s the ultimate equal opportunity insulter. He goes places where very few entertainers dare.

Being a student of comedy, especially stand up, I’ve spent many hours trying to crack the code of his particular kind of subversive genius. So I’ve mentioned the mac Pa. That’s my made up group of celebrity friends that I roll with. It’s me, Michael Chicklist, Tom Cavanaugh, Andy Samberg, Henry Winkler, Keegan, Michael Key, Jeff Goldbloom. That’s who I roll with in my fantasies.

In real life. Is the John Stamos equivalent of the Macpack. Mike Love from the Beach Boys and Don Rickles. What’s going on? There’s a lot more here, which is good because Today’s Saturday, and there’s a holiday week coming up, which means it’s gonna be two weeks of me scrambling for news.

So I could talk more about Don Rickles now, because we are having fun, are we not? And I can siphon off some news stories for next weekend. Awesome. Don Rickles honed his comedic style in Miami before nineteen fifty seven break at La Slate Brothers Club Vaultadham due national acclaim. By nineteen fifty nine, he was booking the record setting Las Vegas residencies that mainstream the art of the roast and made Rickles a fixture of American comedy.

His victims included rat Pack pal Sammy Davis Junior and Frank Sinatra, to fellow comedians Joe Nervis and Milton Burrell. Don Rickles connected with a new generation of fans as the voice of mister potato Head in the toy St franchise. Did you know that? Maybe it did? Yesterday?

I kind of said Matt Rife’s special wasn’t funny. I didn’t kind of say it. I said it owed it, Johnny Mack. Matt Rife special is not funny. Vulture caught my eye with this headline, Matt Rife, natural selection is juvenile and unremarkable.

All right, It’s not just me, they wrote. Now twenty eight years old and recording his first special for a mainstream platform, Rife scenes to have arrived here on a speed run through comedic disquietude toward his own fans. As a result, Natural Selection is half inspiring penis jokes, half screen against the injustice of online haters, and entirely underwhelming. Wow. The penis jokes are the easiest to assess in much the same way that their easiest jokes to make.

Rife has a few different versions. Some are more focused on size, some on what you might do with one when you’re by yourself trying to keep this halfway cleaned. I’m going to struggle here, and some on the challenge of making women very happy. Nudge nudge, wink wink, saying no more, which really just penis jokes where the nerve bundle is a slightly different shape. The longest of them are a section where he imagines being give it a favor by monsters who lurk he under his bed.

Then another story about finding a stepfather’s collection of porn VHS tapes, in a closet. Vulture writes the ideas Rife plays with most clearly being young and figuring out how to deal with sexuality. And at each joke there’s a looming menacing figure. It’s a monster or a stepfather whose threat is neutralized by finishing. If Riife has spent time pondering what that might suggest about the role of sex and his internal conceptions of safety and power, that self reflection doesn’t show up in the writing.

The New York Times art about the Arab American Comedy Festivals taking place tomorrow. It’s the festival’s twentieth anniversary. Because of the war, they considered postponing the festival until next year. Instead, they delayed performances at Gotham in February, but kept tomorrow’s town hall event. Dean Obadallah said, let me be honest, I need to laugh.

We all need to laugh. We need some comedy in our lives, The Times writes. Before nine to eleven, Obadala, who’s half Pallastadian and half Sicilian, wasn’t reagarly political or focused on his identity. But Dean says, on September tenth, I went to sleep a white guy on September eleventh, I woke up an Arab America changed around me. The York Post went to go see Brett Goldstein.

You know him as Roy Ken from Ted Lassa. What happens in his set, Well, Brett jokes about the America versus Great Britain comparisons. We’re told he has a hilarious breakdown of how our public bathrooms are different, and we’re warned to have some questions ready. There’s a question box that he pulls from at the end of the show, and the weirder the question, the more likely it is he’ll answer it, or at least read it out loud. Spam Alot is back.

I have a review that I saw that was pretty strong for it. I’ll save that for Thanksgiving weekend. We’ll talk about that review later. But a bit of news. The pythons are not getting along.

Eric Idle says John’s gone a bit strange, and he doesn’t mean me, means John Clees. Eric Idle says, in the new revival of Spam a Loot, last time we were on Broadway, John Clees played God. Now he’s getting on a bit, He’s getting up there, and John’s gone a bit strange. The new voice of God on Broadway is Steve Martin, and condolences to the f family of Dina Carvey. Dina son Dix died of a drug overdose at his home on Wednesday evening.

On Instagram, Deana Carvey wrote, we suffered a terrible tragedy. Our beloved Sun Dex died of an accidental drug overdose. Dex packed a lot in those thirty two years. He was extremely talented at so many things music, art, filmmaking, comedy, and pursued them all passionately. We’ll miss him forever.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Company. K new some good ones from Late Night. Stephen Colbert said, China has a good reason to want to talk to America, and it’s cash. For the past few years, China’s economy has been struggling with an eMac consumer spending and high youth unemployment.

It’s gotten so bad that second graders can’t get a job at the iPhone factory. Love it new topic. Seth Meyer’s former House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, denied claims that he elbowed Republican Congressman Tim Burchett in the back and added, if I hit somebody, they would know I hit him. Seth said, I assume because his fist would bruise. Colbert said, if I hit him, hit me on the ground, then I’d kick him and I’d take his bike and his Pokemon cards, and his girlfriend would be my girlfriend, and then people would like me, by the way.

Leslie Jones hosting The Daily Show this week, have you heard anything about it? And me neither. Jason Alexander discussed the Seinfeld reunion. Jason was I had a celebrity poker tournament and got asked about this, and he said, no one called me. There’s only one reason for that rumor.

Apparently, at the end of some stand up thing, Jerry went, Larry and I are thinking of doing something good for you. I don’t know anything about it. No one called me. He said that in a joking and warm spirited tune. I’m glad they added that, Otherwise I would have thought there was some beevige going on.

He continued to joke. Apparently they don’t need George and they might not need a Lane because Julie and I went, do you know anything about this? I don’t know anything about this? And I just talked to Michael Richards the other day and I don’t think he knew anything about it. We’ll see.

It’s probably not a good idea. Let things be. The Academy Awards have decided they will stick with Jimmy Kimmel as host. Good choice. You know you need a steady hand at the ship, and he gets it done.

The Oscars are March tenth. It’s the ninety sixth ceremony. We’ll see. If anybody punches anybody, just ask Chris Rock to host it. Wouldn’t that be amazing lot, a lot a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of press about Matt Rife.

This week, I watched Matt Rife Special. As I’ve said all week, I likefe I like where he’s coming from. You hear the butt? The butt’s coming? Do you want the butt?

Now? I’m gonna make you wait for the butt. There’s a butt coming. Vogue and talk to Matt Rife about Matt Riffe’s hotness, and they wrote, let’s play a game. Does the name Matt Rife ring a bell?

If not, you’re probably not gen Z time out. I teach a college class on Monday night. I referenced Matt Rife, and the young ladies in the room their faces lit up like, ooh, we know Matt Rife. And the dudes were like, who’s Matt Rife? And I told the class I was gonna share this anecdote.

The writer for Vogue said. When I asked some young colleagues if they’ve heard of the twenty eight year old comic, they erupted into swooney gaps. Yes, they chanted it it once. He’s so hot, So Vogue said to Matt Rife, how are you feeling Rife said, to be completely candid, it’s wildly overwhelming. You know, for ten years, I woke up every day with absolutely nothing to do nothing, until finally I kicked my butt into being like, Okay, you gotta create your own work if you’re gonna sustain yourself.

So all this is happening now. It’s a lot, but oftentimes I find myself not getting to enjoy the moment as much as I should. Like last night I was on Fallon. I was so tired when it was done. I was like, ah, I gotta go to bed, rather than like I’m calling my mom and all my friends.

If I could sleep like a normal human being, I think this would be a lot easier. Fallon tapes at five thirty in the afternoon, Matt, five thirty, it’s over by six thirty. You’re twenty eight, Matt ryif you’ve gone viral for your crowd work, but there’s none of that in your new special tell us about the thought process, Matt said, I’m just excited to reach a broader audience with this. At this point on YouTube and social media, I feel like I’m creating things for the people that already follow me, which is wildly important. But also social media success is not respected because everybody’s on social media.

People who get sucessful on social media is just lucky, like you happen to get chosen out of all of us. When something lands on Netflix, it’s a bit of a more verified platform, So I’m hoping they’ll watch it and be like, Okay, he does more than crowd work, and maybe I want to go see a live show now, because if you come to my show, I do an hour of material and then maybe like five to ten minutes of crowd work. Maybe did I mention that I watched Matt rivee special and you’re waiting for a butt to make you wait for the butt? Matt, will you continue to do crowd work while you’re on tour? That said?

Probably because it’s fun for me. I won’t do it when people expect it, though, I messaged people who were like, I bought tickets to Matt Write’s show. If he doesn’t do CrowdWork or roast me, I want my money back. Really, I’ll respond, then, do not come. Do not expect that.

I like that answer. I don’t even know who you’re seated. What if you’re in the balcony? I probably can’t talk to you up there. Not true.

I’ve seen Jimmy Carr do amazing crowd work with people in the upper deck study some Jimmy Carr tapes young men, and if I do it, it means you yelled out and interrupted the show, which is widely inappropriate. Matt. Why do you feel like your fans go so crazy? Matt said, I think it’s because so much of my audience is new to comedy. I’m their introduction to a comedy show, so they don’t know how to appropriately react.

They look at it more like a concert than they do like a play. All right, I’ll jump in on the butt here. Remember I told you I saw Matt Ripe Special, but it felt more like a concert. Here’s my takeaway. It’s not funny like the guy.

I want to write the guy. I’m rooting for the guy. This isn’t me on old Man Mountain hating on him. I want to root for him. I was psyched to watch it, and here I took a note.

Four minutes and thirty seconds into the special, I hit stop. I’m in a room by myself, and I caught myself saying out loud, this is true. I went that was bad. He just comes out and it’s like, Hey, it’s the crowd. Oh what’s up, bros.

We’re taping a Netflix special. Can you believe it? No jokes? Where are the jokes? Let’s go boom boom, where’s the funny?

Not feeling it? R I’ve talked about that concert analogy said, like you want the musician. I know you love what they’re doing. You love this song, and you love that hit that note right now, and they’re playing the hits, play the one I want to hear. In my case, crowd work.

I think that’s usually the instinct they have going near these shows, not realizing that’s not what it’s supposed to be. So it’s a bit of a responsibility bringing a new audience into comedy. But I’m also incredibly lucky that you have to tap into a whole fan base that a lot of comics can’t reach.

Also in matt Riife News Coming Soon debuted an exclusive trailer forort Don’t…

Don’t Suck will be out February first. In Don’t Suck, Pete, played by Jamie Kennedy, believes that he’s seen it all in his ears as a road comic until he meets his new killer opening act, a struggling comic who’s a vampire played by Matt Rife. During their time on the road, Pete fulfills his dream of becoming a comics comic. But what about the vampire? We’ll find out.

I also watched Trevor Wallace’s new special called tarot Actyl, but I was in a good mood, too crack to ask Trevor why he called it tarot Actyl, and he said, I wanted a name that was easy to stick in somebody’s head. It did absolutely work because I had prepped this article yesterday, which is what reminded me to watch Trevor wallace as special.

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And then I was like, HATTI spelled tarod Actyle.

I knew there was a pen and tea h at the top, and I couldn’t figure out the rest of it, but I found it. I wanted a one word name because I was thinking about how my friends have told me about specials. Have you seen so and So’s blank? I noticed the recurring theme like first or last name of the person, like Tom sigoris sledgehammer? Did people actually talk like that?

Are you guys going, hey, did you watch Tom Sigori’s sledgehammer? Or are you saying something along the lines of, Hey, did you watch is new special? The latter? Right? What are we talking about here?

Here? Let me ask you some questions. What was Chris rock special? The live one? What was called?

What was John Mulaney’s special called you might get that one? What’s Jim Gaffigan’s newest special called? Mark Marin’s? What was his called? How about Andrew Santino?

Remember that one was called? What was Bird Crazier’s called From the Middle of Summer? What was Tom sagore is called? I just told you it? Do you remember from thirty seconds ago?

You see where I’m going here? John? Stop beating the dead horse? We get it? Okay, I will move on.

Trevor Wallace said, it’s just a powerful, strong word. I didn’t even decide on the name of the special until after I filmed it. It was up against a few other ideas I had, like birds in the bees or carrot cake or spear fingers, all from different jokes I really liked. But Sara Actle just stuck. People won’t know how to spell it, but they’ll remember it.

I gotta agree with you there, I just told you that yep as look as they have their voice to text on their remote control. Will be good. Johnny left us hanging on the butt. Oh yes, I watched Trevor Wallace’s Special, but I lasted six and a half minutes and I wrote down it’s just a guy yelling there’s this comedy that I’m just not into and this was it. John That first half was so negative.

Do you actually like anything? I’ve been meaning him to tell you, guys. I finally got around to watching Bird Chreischer is the Machine. I loved it. That is absolutely making the end of the year top funniest things right now.

I have it between the number eight stand Up Special wisch Is Jim Jeffries and number nine Peene Holmes. I’ve put the Machine as funnier than Peene Holmes, and I like Peen Homes Special a lot, but not as good as Jim Jeffries. But the machine solid, absolutely solid. Watch. On Thursday mid morning, I was looking at the podcast charts and it caught my eye.

Trevor Noah is sitting at number three. This is the Apple podcast charts. THEO Vaughn as the number thirteen podcast in the country. Danielle Tash’s New One at thirty five, Dan soder is one that came out of Nowhere’s at forty, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends at fifty two. No rogan on the Apple charts because it’s a Spotify exclusive, so it doesn’t chart on the normal podcast charts.

If it did, it would most likely be number one overall, if not number two. On the comedy genre page SmartLess, Theovanna Daniel Tosh are one two and three. Soda is number six. I caught my eye that Trevor Noah does not appear on the comedy charts, so I dug and I see that they have labeled that as a society and culture podcast. So when you create a podcast, you do submit to a category.

You can do whatever you want. I could say this podcast is a science podcast, and no one’s gonna actually fact check that. Society and culture tends to be the category you pick when you’re like, I don’t know this podcast is about bottled water. Where does that go? I don’t know society and culture?

So they put Trevor there. I guess he didn’t want it. In comedy, then there are subgenres in comedy. There are three of them interviews, improv, and stand up, and for this particular podcast, it doesn’t really fit in any of them. It’s not an interview show, and I don’t do any improv, So I picked stand up because at least I’m talking about stand ups.

This particular podcast on This Morning is number sixteen in the stand up subgenre. The number one stand up podcast is Bad Friends with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino. Dana White, the guy that runs UFC. He was on Theovan’s podcast, and he’s kind of mad at Peloton. Somewhat quoting Dana White here, I’m gonna have to quite clean it up, Dana said.

I posted a video for Trump on my personal social media and one of our big sponsors called said take that down. You know what I said, Go f yourself. You vote for whoever you want to vote for, and I’ll vote whoever I want to vote for. That’s how this works. I don’t even carry your voting for it’s none of my business.

But f you don’t ever call me and tell me who to vote for. Theovonn revealed he had the same thing happened to him, with former sponsor Peloton telling him to take down an episode featuring presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Dana wasn’t abby with that. He said, what do they sell efing stationary bikes?

Peloton sells stationary bikes and they got a problem with Robert fing Kennedy. F you Peloton? Who the f are they are? You? E fing kidding me?

Effing Peloton calling bitching about Robert Kennedy. I actually do have that podcast downloaded. I didn’t get to it yet, so I’m looking forward to that section. Rummy Usef has announced that all proceeds from his upcoming shows will go directly to organization helping innocent people affected by the Israel Hamas war. On Instagram, Rami Yusef said one hundred percent of the proceeds for the remainder of the Rami Yusef More Feeling stampupatorial be donated to anera providing humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza.

Usef listed twelve upcoming shows happening between the thirtieth and February second. According to its website, and nara’s mission is to provide humanitarian assistance and sustainable development to advance the well being of refugees. Another vulnerable communities in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan. Back on October thirteenth, Rami Usef posted, this past week has broken the heart of all in my life. We fully condemned the death of civilians.

We always have, and now we are witnessing the latest inhumane chapter of a story that desperately needs to end. It serves no one. The people of Gaza do not deserve to pay the price for our failings. If Gaza is erased, history will see we stood by that we failed to find our humanity. Awkward segue time, Lisa Kudrou must have noticed that everybody else from Friends had posted about Matthew Perry, so either Lisa or her publicist went, we want to do something here.

In her post, Lisa wrote, shot the pilot Friends like us got picked up. Then immediately we were at the NBC upfronts. Then you suggested we play poker and made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that. Colin Jost wanted Sikes and some snl Alum are the voice stars of a new scripted comedy podcast series.

Audible is going to try this again. They keep trying these and I’m not sure any of them have caught on yet. In this one, Colin Jost stars as Trent Brockets, a sad sack corporate drone vying for a big promotion, But when he discovers that his boss only wants to promote family men, Trent invents a fake wife to try to land the job. Only one problem. The corporate retreat and aspens a few days away, and Trent is very, very single.

He signs up for a sugar Daddy dating app and meets Carla, a smart, beautiful woman. She’s played by one to Sikes. When they meet in real life, Trent discovers that Carla is a brash, bold, much older woman who is trying to catfish him. As the lie spirals out of control, these two strangers must pretend to be married, raise their fake family, and stay one step ahead of the cutthroat corporate competition. Audible’s got a lot of budget men.

This thing also stars Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Jay Farrell, Michael Uri, and Rachel Dratch. Broadway Video is part of this, and if I remember correctly, Broadway video is tied to Saturday Night Live. All right, we’ll see when that one comes out. Kevin James has a new special, Are You Psyched? In the special, he delivers his unfiltered take on parenting, marriage, and getting older.

Topics include motivating children to put down their video games and why he doesn’t trust technology. No official dates yet, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. Wherever you get your shows, you’ll find this one here. Meet you back here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy. He’s got to tell you a lot of stories today that My reaction was, uh, I didn’t see that coming. We’ll get to that in a second quick stop off at late night, do you see Senator Mullen challenged the president of the Teamsters to a fight. Yeah, apparently that happened and Bernie Sanders had break it up.

Jimmy Kimmel said, this is the first time Bernie Sanders was forced to play the role of peacemaker. You know, when he was originally elected to the Senate, he tried to convince Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton to hug it out. And that didn’t work either. That didn’t end well at all. First story, I wasn’t expecting.

Kevin Hart is the winner of the twenty fifth annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Mark Twain Prize will honor Kevin Hart in a ceremony on March twenty fourth. You hear the hesitation of my voice, Let me tell you a story, then we’ll get to the hesitation. The Center cited his iconic character inimitable physical comedy and relatable narratives, as well as his achievements as a comedian, actor, writer, and producer. In a statement, Kevin Hart said, to be honored in this commemorative year feels surreal.

Comedy is my outlet for social commentary and observations on life. I’m grateful to the Kennedy Center for recognizing my voice and impact on culture. Can’t wait to celebrate all right? The hesitation of Johnny Mack’s voice is Kevin Hart? That funny look.

I get that he’s super popular, super charismatic, has some good films. I guess does he. Let’s look that up. We’ll start with the most recent Diehartbody Care, League of Super Pets, Jumanji, The Next Level, The Secret Life of Pets two, First Jumanji, Captain Underpants, Central Intelligence, Ride Along, Right Along Too, Get Hard. I feel like I’m forgetting something, so I have googled the phrase best Kevin Hart movies, and I’ve come to MovieWeb dot com and their article of best Kevin Hart movies ranked ten Captain Underpants nine Nights School eight, Ride Along all Right, seven, This is the End six thirty five and ticking?

Can you tell me what that even is? Five? Central Intelligence, all Right, four, Get Hard three, The Secret Life of Pets, two, Jumanji and one from twenty fourteen Top five. Top five tells the story of New York City comedian turned to film star Andre Allen, who’s unexpected encounter where the journalist forces him to confront the comedy career in the past that he’s left behind. Chris rock is in this movie.

Jerry seinfeldt as a cameo. Does anyone remember this movie? Maybe It’s just me again? Kevin Hart seems nice, works hard, decent body work. It’s comedies, all right.

Here are some previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize. Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winter’s, Carl Reiner, Whoopy Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lord Michael, Steve Martin, Neil Simon, Billy Crystal. Now, if we start from two thousand and eight, George Carlin, Bill Cosby won in two thousand and nine, but that was rescinded in twenty eighteen. Don’t Ask Questions, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia Louis dreyf Is, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, and now Kevin Hart. Again.

I’m not gonna think about this again until March. But my premise today was a lot of stuff that I was like, huh, I didn’t see that coming. Matt Riife’s new specials out on Netflix. Did you watch it yet? Rife says it’s incredible.

My first two specials I had to do because I’ve been doing comedy for ten and eleven years. When I did them and I was sitting on material, I was very proud of it, but I was like, I don’t know what to do with it. Nobody wants to give me a special. What do I do? So I put them out on my own, which is very validating in of itself.

But to have somebody come from another level be like, hey, we like what you’re doing, we like what you’ve done for yourself. We want to invite to work with us, it feels warm, It feels inviting. Netflix has been great about the entire creative process. Matt was asked if he was worried about, you know, being canceled. Basically is the question every interview asked that question.

Matt said, I don’t really adhere to this whole sensitivity rumor in the comedy world that you can’t say anything anymore. That’s bs you could say whatever you want now you have to prepare for repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to how do you sleep at night? You know what I mean? Other people’s perspective of you isn’t your responsibility, So how can he sleep at night?

The way I look at it is as a comedian, everything comes down to intent. I know for me, everything that leaves my mouth on stage is purely with the intention of making people laugh. It’s never any deeper, never any more, or never any less than that. That’s all it is to me. Now.

I like dark humor. I don’t believe there’s anything you can’t talk about if you do it correctly, in the right way, at the right time. And at the end of the day, I think you need to just go out there. You have to be yourself, not worry about offending a certain amount of people. You get the idea skip bad on that answer.

He was asked about being known for a crowd work now and Matt said, surprise to me as well, it’s also something I haven’t been doing for that long. It became something that I had fun doing. One thing is a comedian. Even though throughout your entire year you’re growing and working on your material, you feel like you’re getting a bit of groundhock day, or you’re telling the same one hour show over and over. Even I get tired of my own jokes if you tell them over and over again.

So crowd work is spontaneous and unique. I like being surprised, and the ongoing theme of every Matt Rife interview this week is about his looks. Matt said, one of the biggest misconceptions of things I get ridiculed online for is people are like, ah, he only has a female base in the beginning, Yeah, because I blew up on TikTok, which is very female dominant. So I get that perspective. But when you come to the shows, I mean it’s fifty to fifty, it’s couples coming out, its groups of dudes were coming.

That’s one thing I wanted to tackle in this special was showing people that, like, despite me you think of me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. I wanted to make this special for everybody. I pride myself in making my comedy for everybody. It’s not for a specific demographic.

I think if people would just give it a chance with not going in it and be like, ah, like girls like him, I think you’d like it. Here’s another one of those stories I didn’t expect at all. At the beginning of the Netflix Cup in Las Vegas, the TV cameras are on all of a sudden, Bird Kreischer is seen making a bee line to stop a woman who was protesting. The protester appeared to be holding up a sign urging a Formula one to cut ties with the I did a rod dog sled race. Yeah, a little twist there at the end there, Johnny Mac.

I didn’t think dogs led race Bird Kreisher was gonna happen as fifty one year old Berd Krescher grabbed a woman. She was screaming about more than one hundred and fifty dogs, and the cameras quickly cut away. Kays, you’re curious. The Netflix Cup is a series of events featuring golfers and Formula one drivers. Here’s another one I didn’t expect from The Daily Mail.

A millennium comedian disgeneration Z in her stand up routine. The routine was posted Monday on TikTok and fueled the age old war between the olds and the youngs. Who is at the center of this amazing controversy It is Eliza Slesinger, who apparently went on a four minute rant about gen Z and how they’re not nice to millennials. Eliza said, because yours is a context less generation made of soundbites and hot takes, you need to know a little bit about the history of my generation. We’ve taken it up the uh booty.

I’m cleaning that up a little. For our whole existence, we were told we were lazy, and then we could have everything, and then we got out of school if we could afford it, and there were no jobs and there were no houses, and then they said we couldn’t have avocados. A lot of us started doing weird stuff like wearing al jewelry and wide brim hats, moving to Brooklyn and making small batched lavender ice cream. She insisted that the millennials ate the ice cream because it was the food of our people. However, the pandemic changed everything, according to Eliza Slessinger and gen Z started saying stuff to us like, ooh, Millennials, why you so chewgie a word you invented.

Let me chime in here as representative of generation acts, you’re both ridiculous. Hi from old Bad Mountain. How many people just went f this guy? This podcast is stupid. Those of you who are still here, yeah, hear me, I love you back.

Slessunders told her audience she could tell people and gen Z were angry because of society, which was like a tirefire of an urban rummage sale. We’re angry too, but we have heartburn and our back’s hurt. But we’re right there with you. S Lessons are discussed what connectible nails and gen zs, we’re your older brothers and sisters who showed you how to smoke weed out of an apple. We are bosses.

Will give you the day off because your fife’s are retrogreed like, we get it. And she added the people who are over forty that wear their hair down with a part in the middle, you look like a witch anyway. Apparently the gen zs are very upset with that. Don’t do the other day, the New Zealanders were upset that John Oliver was meddling in their Bird of the Century contest. Well, congratulations to John Oliver and the Poudha Katiki again.

Hope, I’m saying that right as you know. It’s a threatened Australasian crusted grebe. The announcement for the annual two week contest winner was delayed by two days after the competition was inundated with votes following John Oliver’s announcement during last week Tonight. Oliver even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon dressed in a Poudha Kaitiki costume to promote the bird. The bird is known for carrying its young on its back, sharing chick rearing responsibilities, and eating its own feathers to induce vomiting as a method to expel parasites and as a course of grunt’s growls and barks, and engages in an elaborate set of mating dances, including the Weed Dance, where the birds offer each other water weed and the Ghostly Penguin where they rise chest chest.

The competition normally attracts just under sixty thousand votes. This year three hundred and fifty thousand votes, with two hundred and ninety three hundred and seventy four going to the Poudah katiki Or. Howard said thousands of fraudulent votes had to be weeded out, including forty thousand votes cast by a single person. Oh not for John Oliver’s bird. The forty thousand were cast for the Towaukee peaky Toca Eastern rock hopper.

Penguins say that five times fast I got it right. On Take three. New Zealand’s national bird, the North Island brown Kiwi, came second with twelve thousand votes. Again, the winner had two hundred ninety thousand, and the world’s only alpine parrot, the Clever key, third place twelve thousand, sixty votes. Forest and Bird Chief executive Nicola Toki said, we’re not surprised these German characteristics caught the eye of an influential bird enthusiast with a massive following good answer.

Oliver said, they’re weird puking birds with colorful mullets. What’s not to love here? A conservation project started in twenty thirteen has increased the population from a low of two hundred in the nineteen eighties to just under one thousand today. We haven’t been a gossip corner in a while. Apparently some fancy people were at Leonardo DiCaprio’s forty ninth birthday in La seen leaving the party together Olivia and Chris Rock.

The Daily Mail says they didn’t hide the fact they were leaving together. They were spotted having a great time and they jumped into an awaiting suv. A driver sped away, so fans of no indication if they were headed to the same spot where if Chris Rock was just hooking her up with a ride. Adam Sandler stopped by Drake University post with the men’s basketball team and shot some hoops. The Drake’s men’s basketball official facebook page shared some photos.

The university said it was great having the legend Adam Sandler stopped by the practice facility before he showed tonight in Des Moine. All Right, I caught up on some podcasts What Now with Trevor Noah. As I was listening to it, and I really like Trevor, I was like another interview show.

And then as I listened to it, I was like, you know what, this is a good inter…

The interview with the Rock was very interesting. Looking forward to seeing who Trevor has on today. I checked out Toss show. I went back and forth. I was like, oh, I’m excited for this.

And then I saw that guest one was quote my wife’s guynecologist, and I was like, play on it. And the opening segment surprisingly really funny, like way funnier than I expected. I was like, oh, this is really good. I’m excited about this one. And that was just the mess around with clips segment, and then the guest was his wife’s gynecologist.

I hit unfollowed not for me. All of a sudden, yesterday, Dan Soder tweeted, Hey, my new podcast is out. Dan Soder’s podcast is called Soda. Episode one is called Ejected from the Car with Big Jay Okerson. As a bit of a podcast expert, this looks like it’s homemade.

I don’t feel like there’s a company behind this. I feel like somebody who knows just enough about putting out a podcast just put this out. Not sure what’s going on there. If you are a new listener, and a lot of new listeners lately, welcome aboard. Sometimes comedy intersects with serious topics.

Lately it has been the Israel Hamas war. So I try to do those stories after the commercial break, because I know you come here for comedy, so I try and do the fun stuff up front and the more serious stuff in the back here. John Lovetts is criticizing John Oliver recently. On last Week Tonight, John Oliver exposed how US money, weapons, and training have boosted the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of Israel. He played a clip of a Palestinian telling reporters about how his daughter was killed by American weapons in the hands of israelis Oliver commented that the made in America slogan that we’re also proud of is being strapped onto stuff that’s killing people.

John Lovettz took issue with the way John Oliver framed the issue on Twitter. I’m not calling it the other thing, John Lovettz tweeted, because it’s Twitter. Yes, the United States is aligned with Israel, our democratic ally, not AMAS, a terrorist organization who broke a two year cease fire, murdered at least twelve hundred in ac cent civilians, and took two hundred and forty civilian hostages back with them so they could start a never ending war with Israel and annihilate Israel and then Jews all over the world. Lovett’s posted again about Oliver’s clip, this time sharing an Israel Today article headlined hamas terrorist confessed to raping corpses beheading children. The comedian told John Oliver, please talk about this on your next show.

That brings us to awkward segue. Lewis black. He has announced the dates for his final tour. Lewis said in a stabman, I’m only retiring from touring. It’s time for me to explore other avenues, such as writing, reading your rants, and pitching TV shows that will be rejected, which is why I know they’re good.

More in Portland, I can finally give my fantasy football team the focus and time it truly needs, and maybe, just maybe I can become the professional golfer I was born to be. The tour is called Goodbye Yeller Brick Road like it. The final tour begins today in Troy, New York. He’ll be in Peak School tomorrow, Waterbury, Connecticut, and New London over the weekend. I’m not going to read you fifty dates.

This thing goes all the way so far into next May. He had said he would tour through the end of twenty twenty four, but some interesting dates here at the end May fourteenth. Amsterdam, yes, that one. Then Brussels, London, Berlin and Stockholm. Interesting choices.

The various friends paid tribute to Matthew Perry. It was interesting. One friend put out a statement, and suddenly another friend put out a statement, and the other friends were like, oh, we better put out statements too. I think this sequence went like this. I’m not sure if I have it one hundred percent correct, but I think matt LeBlanc went first.

On Instagram, matt LeBlanc wrote, it was with heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together honestly among the favorite times of my life. It was an honor to share the stage with you and call you my friend. I’ll always smile when I think of you, and I’ll never forget you. Never spread your wings and fly, brother, You’re finally free.

Much love than Courtney Cox posted, I’m so grateful for every moment I had with you, Mattie, and I miss you every day. When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share for now. Here’s one of my favorites. To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London, but because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story. In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say.

He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind. Her video shared two clips. One was a clip of what aired on the show, and the other was a longer version that showed how close Cox and Perry were in real life. Then the next day, I think we heard from Jennifer Aniston on Instagram.

She wrote, oh boy, this one is cut deep. Having to say goodbye to our Maddie has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experienced loss at some point in our lives, loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really sit in the grief allows you to feel the moments of joint gratitude for having loved someone that deep, and we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.

We were always the six of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Maddie. He knew he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the laugh, he thought he was going to die.

His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh and laugh hard. Then we heard from David Schwimmer. Schwimmer wrote, I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery.

You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend to your wheel, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes. And he had heart, which you were generous with and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers. Schwimmer accompanied his caption with a photo of his and Perry’s characters Ross and Chandler in the Miami Vice inspired college attire. Swarm recalled the image one of my favorite moments with you now. It makes me smile and grieve at the same time.

Imagine you’re up there somewhere in the same white suit, hands in your pockets, looking around. Could there be any more clouds? And that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Chicago Tribune had somebody over at the Seinfeld Gaffigan show at the United Center. Some of the topics marriage, brunch, vacation, children’s movies, horses, circuses, cemeteries, golfviser’s pets, having kids, submarines, and pop tarts. The Tribune says some topics that didn’t come up war, poverty, politics, racism, and inequality.

And the Tribune says that shouldn’t be surprising. Jim and Jerry don’t do statements. They don’t write around themes. They don’t take off a couple of years only to return transformed touting a fresh thesis. These are not those kind of stand ups.

And you know this early in a set, Jerry said, everybody’s sick of everything. Two hours of Seinfeld and Gaffigan back to back becomes a two man march against universal annoyances at a time when nothing feels universal anymore. Surrounded by footlights, taking the stage to Sinatra, they lent an air of throwback, minus the hackiness that that might imply. Seinfeld spoke with a painfully hoarse voice. At times he offered some nuggets of his personal lifeifications not his thing.

He said, let’s buy a lot of money to fight in a hotel room. When an audience member creepily writes The Tribune stood still at the lip of the stage for a long moment, then sprung forward and snapped a selfie, Jerry sounded amazed and said, look at the arrogance of this individual. Gaffigan joke that everyone thinks he has cancer because he’s lost lots of weight. In truth, he’s been taking an appetite suppressant. Turns out that all these years, all I had to do is take a weekly shot that killed depression inside of me.

They joke that they’re going to have a steel cage match with Steve Martin and Martin Schure at the Tribune rights, but neither plays arenas often, and you can see why. For Seinfeld, the cavernous United Center, echoing his jokes about nothing much at all, dreams a smidge of his chit chatty intimacy. Gaffigan’s goofy hush feels swallowed at times, even more muted than intended. Inside such a large space, it’s also harder to sustain a cascading breathless eruption of laughs when the audience is so scattered. Interesting take there in the arena.

Trevorah as a new title. He is the chief tourism comedian for South Africa. He’s leading a new tourism campaign entitled the Best of Us. The campaign kicks off with Trevor Noah walking poolside at a holiday home. Trevor addresses common misconceptions and queries he often gets about South Africa.

Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Trevor Noah and I’m South African, and because I’m South African, people from all over the world insist on asking me questions about South Africa. So I decided to make an ad to answer some of those fascinates and questions, like how cold and snowy is your Christmas? Well, Tracy, unfortunately we can’t afford snow. Now I’m just playing.

We’re in the Southern Hemisphere, which means when it’s freezing in Connecticut, it’s fantastic in Ktown. Klaus sent me this one. Can you play golf in South Africa? Well, Klaus, we actually have some of the finest golf courses in the world. Judging by your thirty seven handicap.

And you play golf. Trevor doesn’t just answer quirky questions. He highlights South Africa’s verse attractions and these sound awesome, like right up my alley, wildlife scenes in Kruger National Park, bungee jumping at the Blowcren’s Bridge, I won’t be doing that one, surfing in Jurban’s Golden Mile, shortcage diving in Gansby. Maybe I’m not into South Africa at all. I don’t want a bungee jump, nor do I want a shirtcage and high end golf courses along the Garden Route.

Hmm. I probably should have read that before I commented, I like the National Park stuff. I’ll sit on a beach. Bill Burr spoke to nik dot net about having anxiety before shows. Bill mentioned an irrational fear of his laces coming inside as he performs.

He explains that he would combat that by double knotting his shoes, but he was still scared. He was worried at full my career would be over. The Boston Globe profiled Bill Blumenerke, an event promoter of Boston comedy. Bill got quite the wax job from the Boston Globe. They wrote that blumen Reke placed a big bet years ago the comedy audiences would maintain an upward trajectory.

It was a gamble that’s paid off handsomely. Two thousand and eight, Bill signed a twenty year lease at the eleven hundred seat Wilbur Theater. Bill said, we used to advertise in the newspaper, on the radio. Now it’s all online, it’s all viral. Thirty five years ago, if a comedian played the night show with Johnny Cerson, that meant they could sell maybe another three hundred and forty tickets in Boston.

Now it’s aline all viral. The article then starts talking about some Boston comedians and we wind up with Dean Cook commenting on Matt Rife. Rife saw Dane Cook when Rife was fifteen. Rife sent Dane an email. Dane Cook told him to come to La after he graduated from high school.

Eventually, Dane Cook began mentoring Matt Rife took him on tour as an opening act. Dane said, not only was he extraordinarily funny and fast with CrowdWork, but he was starting to use social media in a real honest way. Dane Cook himself known for using social media twenty years ago, and Dane said, at that moment, I really felt like I was on a solo adventure. Nobody had broken through using technology. Part of the hoopla was who’s this guy that’s doing this.

That’s not so much the question today, when it’s almost expected that you’re going to take your stand up to an arena level. Boston based comedian Emily Raskowski thinks the recent growth of large scale comedy shows is a boon for the business, with a trickle down effect for club comics like herself. Emily said, anytime people level up to bigger venues, it opens up space for other people to also level up. Dane Cook warns of a gold rush. She says, I’m sure the heaviness, the gloom and doom of the twenty four hour news cycle made people want to get out and be part of something uplifting.

But I honestly think more of what a spawned this area has to do with the entrepreneurial nature of stand up. But Dane Warren’s there’s only so much revenue to go around. But if you’re good enough, if you keep growing with honest, enthusiastic entrepreneurship, I think a lot of people will get to the arena level. Matt Raife talking about his looks and said, yeah, I’ll play it. I’m young, dumb and cute card.

But then once you become twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, you’re an adult. People stop caring about what you look like, at least in comedy clubs, like are you actually gonna be funny? So now I’m at this point where I kind of hate that I did that to myself because I’m putting a weird position of like, yes, I have this massive fan base that is predominantly women, who are such a powerful fan base. They’re so supportive, and I mean, obviously, I mean look at that. I mean the ticket sales we did in forty eight hours is insane.

But then I have to sort through all of those fans to find, Okay, who are the real comedy fans who were actually here because they believe I’m a funny comedian. Big Think profiled Neil Brennan, who said, the biggest lie I’ve ever told myself is that I wasn’t capable of existing or thriving on my own. This goes back to two thousand and three. He was co writing Chappelle’s show, right and high. But that fell apart when Dave retreated to South Africa for almost a decade to hide from the preciures of press coverage.

Remember that, Yeah, Dave walked away at the top of his game. Somehow has gotten back to the top of the game. You don’t see that often big think rights, as the brain can so cruelly do. Brennan told himself that his success was only thanks to Chappelle, that he wouldn’t be able to cut it alone, a perception that nearly destroyed him. Neil Brennan said, I had an index card in my pocket of funny things that I’ve written or done, whether there were sketches on the show, or lines or whatever, things that I’ve done as a reminder that I had some worth.

I felt like if I was drowning or sinking, I could look at this and call off the dogs. In my mind. Right now, I’m a bit on the fence about how much of life is a solo endeavor and how much is healthy to invest in people. I’m spending a lot of time and energy on people who weren’t reciprocating, so now I’ve withdrawn from a bunch of them. I thought there’d be this hole where they were There isn’t Whitney Cummings special is out today.

It is called Mauthee. It’s on OnlyFans TV. Marlon Wayans was on The Breakfast Club. Maryland says he wants to get even more personal in his future stand up comedy specials and dedicate the next special to his trans son Kai. The special would be titled Skittles or Rainbow Child and would be about his daughter who’d transitioned to his son.

Maryland said, my daughter AMAI is now Kai, and so I talk about the transition now their transition, but my transition as a parent, going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance. I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message, and I know how I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me, but man, it’s one of the best funniest hours I probably could ever imagine. Lewis Black spoke to m Live and revealed in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, he spent time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula helping to build a cabin. At the time, the area was known for its twenty five cent screwdriver cock tales.

Lewis said, oh mo, that twenty five cent orange juice in vodka can’t beat that. I always wondered why people live there, and the first time I sat down at the bar, I went, all right, I get it. Please don’t destroy as the Treasure of Foggy Mountain will be out soon. And they found the perfect person to play Ben Marshall’s dad. Ben Marshall’s dad played by Conan O’Brien.

Director Paul Burgranti said Conan was very excited and took it very seriously. We immediately thought of him, but we were nervous because he’s so important to us. But we asked him and he was like, I want to make sure you do a good job. Apparently Conan shared some wisdom with the crew, including relationship advice. That advice Conan said, don’t cheat on your partner.

Jason Sidekis will be back in Kansas City this weekend for his seventh annual Thundergong charity event. The benefit concert supports These Steps of Faith Foundation, which helps uninsured and underinsured amputees get the prosthetic limbs they need. The event will be hosted by Jason Sdeakas and will feature musical performances from his Ted Lasso co stars Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, and Sam Richardson. Will Forte A we’ll schedule to appear. Sadekas told The Hollywood Reporter that Hannah is very shy, very nervous.

She’s been taking hours and hours of vocal lessons to get ready for this type of thing. But it’s a joy to know that she’s willing to do it, and I love her to pieces for it. Sadeka’s has plans for his guests. We’ll try to get some barbecue in them, whether they want it or not. They usually do.

Then it’s getting the hotel and they’re always welcome to go to my mom and dad’s place and hang out there. Bill Angvall caught up with Fox and asked that you don’t go with the attitude of trying to cancel people or find something offensive. Bill’s promoting here’s your sign, it’s finally time. My last show that’ll premiere in December. Bill said comedy’s the best thing in the world, and to be able to go to a place and laugh.

Don’t go with the attitude that you’re going to try and find something that’s offensive. That’s what you’re wanting to do. And I don’t know where to tell you to go, but please don’t do it at a comedy show, because comedy is great. It’s very fun. It’s fun to laugh, and you feel better if you’ve had a great night of comedy.

So don’t put it under the microscope too much. Bill talked about life off the road. When I first started out in the business, I couldn’t wait to get on the road. You know, it’d be packed two or three days before I had to leave. It used to be that the show outweighed the road as far as the amount of fun I had.

I started realizing that the road was making it a little more difficult. I wanted to go out in my own terms. He said. Having grandkids was a big game changer. It seemed like I was missing out on stuff, the same kind of stuff I’d missed out with my kids.

I didn’t want to go through that again. I wanted to be able to really spend time with my kids and my wife and our grandkids. So I knew it was just one of those things that you just kind of know. Bill Speci will be on Amazon Prime Video December fifth, And that ‘s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Chris Rock is trying to recruit USC Trojans quarterback at Caleb Williams to come play for the New York Jets. Chris Rock may have forgotten that they signed Aaron Rodgers. He’s pretty good at football, you know.

Social media videos show Chris Rock talking with Williams ahead of USC’s game against the Oregon Ducks. During the interaction, Chris Rock emphatically pleads for Caleb Williams to join the Jets next season. Rock said, that’s Jets, that’s who we want. Williams laughed. Rock said the Jets.

You want the Jets so bad. You don’t want to go to Chicago. You want the Jets. You don’t want the and he used the former name of the Washington NFL team. I’m not going to use that word, Chris Rock.

They currently go by Commanders. You use that other word, and it’s not Washington football team either. I digress. You don’t want that team. You want the Jets.

There’s no place you’d rather play than the Jets. Daniel Sash has a new podcast out today. It is called Tosh Show. Good name. This comes three years after Comedy Central canceled to Tosh Point.

Oh, so that’s where Daniel’s been. On Toss Show, Daniel Tosh will interview people from all walks of life and share his perspective on current events, as well as share glimpse in his own world. However, it will not be your traditional celebrity and comedian interview show, but Daniel Tosh will search out people who peak his curiosity, including his plumber, his stylist, his car guy, his wife’s gynecologist, his favorite drag queen, and more. He’ll discuss topics such as religion, travel, sports, and gambling. Been doing this a long time.

That description I just read you is telling me nobody knows how to describe the show. Daniel Tosh very talented. This might get by on talent alone, but I’m telling you I’ve been doing this for a long long time. That is an unfocused description. Tosh said, I’ve grown over the past three years.

Literally I thought it was six y three. Turns out I’m six to four. I think the listeners will appreciate my new perspective, a suit said with Toss Show listeners can affect a refreshing and fearless take on a wide range of topics. Again, I’ll jump in there once you start doing the generic wide range of topics. That means nobody knows what this show’s about.

A refreshing and fearless take on a wide range of topics from a beloved voice in comedy. We’re excited to share this hilarious, entertaining, and thought provoking podcast with listeners everywhere. Despite my negativity of the copywriting, I’m excited for this one. I have already become a follower. Got a bunch of many controversies for you today.

Bill Burr’s wife. She was at Madison Square Garden. She was not there to see Bill Burr. She was there to see the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In walks Donald Trump with Trump, Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock, Trump Junior, and Dana White.

That’s the guy that runs UFC. We find out Missus Burr apparently not a fan. In a video clip you’ll see all over social media, Missus Burr is seen frowning and gives a two finger salute, one finger from each hand. People are assuming this was about Trump. Maybe she’s just not a fan of Kid Rock’s music.

Huh More controversy. Matt Rife did a tick for Men’s Health magazine. On the TikTok, Matt Riife claimed that being physically attractive was not helping his career. I like Matt Rife. I find him very thoughtful.

I’ll chime in, being physically attractive isn’t hurting your career either. Raife said, people don’t want to laugh at physically attractive people. You don’t want to walk on stage and people looking at your arms rather than listening to your jokes. I think it just makes me work that much harder. Someone on social media wrote, I feel seen the struggle is real.

Riife doubled down on his comments. He went on The Today’s Show and said, I would say it’s harder because of the fact that this conversation is even happening, but the fact that I said it, and I’m doing Men’s Health magazine, which seemed like the perfect context to talk about the shape you’re in. I would say it definitely doesn’t help because people don’t like you. People assume your life is easier when you have all these good things going for you. There’s nothing funny about somebody living an easy life, or so you would assume.

So That’s why I would say it’s a little bit harder. You have to win people over more often. Again. I’ve listened to several interviews with him. I find him very thoughtful.

Saturday Night, I have er Kerfluffel. Took a couple days for people to notice that one joke referenced the ongoing Israel Hamas War. Timothy Shallomy was your host and did a skit with Please Don’t Destroy. Timothy played a character who’s an aspiring musician who wanted to end his life. John Higgins from Please Don’t Destroy says to the character, there must be someone or something you care about.

Challomey said, I guess it’s my music. Shallo May’s character plays a song for the group. They’re not impressed, but he asked them will you share it on Instagram? The group agrees and asks Chalomey’s character for his Instagram user name. He says it’s Hamas h a m As.

Martin Hurley from the Please Don’t Destroy guy says, yeah, dude, I’m not sharing a song by Hamas on Instagram. One Twitter user wrote that Timothy Shallamay snl scat about Hamas is actually one of the worst tone deaf and disgusting things I’ve ever seen more controversy the Simpsons. Is Homer going to choke part or not? People were upset that he wasn’t choking part. Well, maybe he is going to choke part.

Is that what you wanted? James L. Brooks told people nothing’s getting tamed. Nothing nothing nothing. Bart will continue to be strangled, if you want to use that awful term for it.

He’ll continue to be loved by his father in a specific way. Tom Segura as announced a new tour. It is called Tom Segura Come Together. In a statement, Segura said, this tour is bigger and blacker than anything I’ve ever done. But the name has already been used, but come Together gets the point across.

Let’s all come together for a night, one way or another. We’re gonna make memories on this one. Ticket Buyers in some cities will have the option to purchase a platinum charity ticket. S Agora will donate a portion of the platinum ticket sales proceeds to World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. The pre sale is tomorrow ten am.

Information at Tom Sagura dot com. Slash tour. Some of the cities won’t read them all. Let’s see what’s interesting here, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, then Corpus Christi, Texas. He hits the South out in April, will be out in the West, and it all wraps up June fifteenth and Bengor Main John Oliver joked that the sex strike finally ended, meeting that movies will be back in production, although to be honest, I’m not even sure that I need movies anymore since this seventeen minute video was released of what I can only describe as a hamster Gatsby living its best life.

He then showed a video titled the Awesome Hamster Ballpool Maze. That video has gotten one point four million views on YouTube. John said, it’s a complete masterpiece, and it goes on for sixteen more minutes. I mean, Barbarenheimer was fine. I liked it fine, but let’s be honest, it’s just not as good as that weird Awl promised that he’ll be making some new music in twenty twenty four.

Al said, I don’t think there’s going to be like another bonafid weird Owl album per se, but I want to keep writing music whatever projects come up. I want to be able to write for TV and films and maybe the occasional single now and then. In fact, I will make a commitment I will put out at least one new single next year that got cheers from the audience. Adam Sandler showed up at the Milwaukee Public Market on Saturday, a couple hours before his sold out show. Market security guards’angelo was there and said, I was doing my normal patrols, walking through, scanning the area.

Then I noticed it was Adam Sandler. He was like, ah, you got me. Copper. Sandler took off his hood took some pictures with everyone. D’angela said, you rarely see a legend like that.

I’m used to seeing celebrities, but we saw a real legend. The last story in today’s podcast will be major spoilers for the newest episode of Rick and Morty. I will warn you before I dive into that story. And it’s not yet. Steve O has a new special out today, Steve O’s bucket List.

The official copy tells us if you thought Steve O was crazy before, then you’ll have to brace yourselves for his new act. Steve O told Deadline. I’ve bored my heart and soul into the show and I can’t wait to unleash it on the world. You’ll find it on steveo dot com. I’m seeing something labeled as the Sacramento Comedy Festival, but I think it’s just a show because I saw the exact same lineup being referred to as the Orlando Comedy Festival.

Whatever. This is. A star studded lineup of renowned comedians is heading to the Hard Rock Hotel and Sacramento. It will include Bill Bellamy, some more, Lavelle Crawford, and Don D. C Curry and again that same lineup as playing Orlando, So not really sure it’s a festival.

Fun story from Chicago Eater, two pairs of comedians go heads ahead in a battle that asks not only if they’re funny, but can they cook? Yes. It’s sawteed stand up, a mix of joke telling and food at TV Tropes that aims to set audiences on fire without literally burning the place down. And yeah, they got to be careful, they said, on our first show, we almost burnt the venue down twice. We melt it through two extension cords.

A right, be careful when you do sawted stand up. Here are the rules. Complete a dish alongside your teammate, three servings one per judge, typically a local chef or a member of the food media, while making the audience laugh during a ten minute stand up set. The team with the best dish wins, so even if your jokes bomb, you can still go home a winner. Teams are given an allowance they’re Friday before an event to shop for ingredients anywhere they want.

At showtime, a mystery ingredient is dropped on the contestants. Surprize ingredients in the past have been fish, sauce, butternut squash, caviare. With time, budget and equipment limited, controlled chaos often ensues. One of the creators said, we’ve had people on the show we don’t care about the cookie at all. They’ll make grilled cheese, but they don’t eat butter, and the cheese doesn’t melt.

They just do a really bad job. They’ll put cheese and bread and pan and moving around the pan for forty minutes.

Meanwhile, the chefs are people who normally are on stage, and when they’re o…

Whoa It’s so funny to see someone do the show for the first time and say something with the crown finds hilarious. There’s this looking their eyes. You could see it. Saus E stand up at the Lincoln Lodge Sunday. They hold shows the first and third Sundays of the month, and this one is a third Sunday.

You should go all right, gonna spoil Rick and Morty’s newest episode. If you want to be spoiled, you can check out now and I’ll see you tomorrow. Everybody else gonna spoil Rick and Morty? Are you ready? The Rick and Morty team talk to Variety about the spoiler, which is all right, I’ve warned you enough the death of a major character.

Plus it’s a new supervillain in unmort Ricken appears to be a standard Rick and Mordy adventure until Morty goes on a rampage, Don’s an eyepatch and becomes the figure fans know as Evil Morty. People have been complaining there hasn’t but enough Morty this season. Evil Morty is a super intelligent version of regular Morty. After previously ruling the Citadel, Evil Morty is now settled in his personal Fortress of Solitude, an entire arc compressed into a four minute cold open.

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Meanwhile, Rick C one three seven, the main Rick that we normally follow arou…

Are you falling when all this a board? Jaded Evil Morty tags along as they discover Rick Prime has rebuilt the Omega Device, a super weapon that terminates all versions of its victims like Diane. Rick C one thirty seven kills Rick Prime with his bare hands, but at the expense of letting Evil Morty escape. Showrunner Scott Martyr said that episode would have been a series finale on a lot of show and I liked it. It was just an episode in the middle of one of our seasons.

We move at a really crazy piece. The demise of Rick Prime is being compared to the death of Logan Roy in Succession. Yeah, I guess, Although when the Succession episode happened, they had already planned this on Rick and Morty. Mortar said, animation takes so long. Co creator Dan Harmon said, I thought it was a great idea to lean into.

It gave me fives of the wire, learning throughout the first season that there’s different flavors of bad guy, and then you get the satisfaction of watching your favorite drug dealers against the one that had absolutely proven himself to be a meritless sociopath. The idea of team ups where it’s not as simple as I’ll put on a white hat, you put on a white hat, and we’ll go after the guy with the black hat. Harmon said, I think there’s still a conclusion with a story here, because the narcissists would tell you that destroying yourself doesn’t solve the problem. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell somebody about it, and you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, you two, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bird Kreischer thinks podcasting changed the game, well, podcasting and social media. Bird said, when they kind of clicked, I think people fell in love with comics voices. I think people got to hear you and know you and feel like they’re your friends.

And that’s why people loved Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen, all of them, because they felt like they knew them. During the pandemic. It’s saved our lives. I mean it saved my life. But I think podcasting for comics gives them control over their own narrative of how they want to be represented to their fans.

Look at somebody like THEO Vaughn, who’s white hot right now. He’s always been funny as hell. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, a lot of Comedy Central digs lately, if you notice that, like a lot of Comedy Central digs lately. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, they may not get it, and they may edit him weird. But THEO knows how.

Theo’s the funniest, so he sits in front of a camera and just theos it for an hour and people love him to death. I think he gave a lot of people way to use their own voice. Theo’s podcast is very easy on the ears. Grayshers said, I gotta say Joe Rogan was the one who was like, if everyone hating each other, we can help each other. When I started, everything was an audition to get a development deal, to get a whole deal.

Everybody was kind of crappy behind their backs to each other. It was a weird energy. If we’re not friends, but we worked together. Then when podcasting showed up, Joe started putting people on and we’re like, yeah, this is Burt. He’s funny, go see him live.

And all of a sudden, everyone’s like, what, yo, Aurried, you want to be on my podcast. Everybody cares about each other. We’re upfront to each other about how much money we make, what the clubs pay, We talk about ad sales on podcasts. It’s very different than when I started, and you couldn’t get someone to help you get past it. The seller speaking of Joe Rogan in your post was speculating that Joe Rogan may ditch Spotify for another platform, perhaps even joining Elon Musk’s x you Know Twitter after Joe’s contract with Spotify expires next year.

The Joe Rogan Experience is believed to draw eleven million listeners per episode. Joe reportedly has a two hundred million dollar deal. A Rets Research founder Richard Kramer told The Verge, it’s a situation where you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t. If you do keep Joe Rogan, Spotify will be locked into paying Rogan as much or even more than before at a time when they need to contain costs. But if you don’t keep them, that’s really tough because your biggest property and source of sales within the ad business walks.

Ashley Carman wrote about Joe Rogan for Bloomberg. She reports Joe Rogan’s appearance at a Spotify advertiser event in Austin recently suggests he’s gonna stay with Spotify, according to people familiar with the event, reports Bloomberg. Spotify flew podcast ad agencies and brand reps out to Texas for a full day of corporate sponsored fun. They were wind and dined. They went to the Grand Prix alongside Dak Sheppard, who schmoozs with guests for about forty minutes.

Later, the group eight in cahoots a private event space where Joe Rogan joined in. Joe hung out for forty five minutes, circulating the room, saying hi and taking photos with atten D’s. So we’ll see if Rogan stays. I had promised you if you don’t listen on the weekend, I had promised on Friday, I would talk about the Grammys on Monday in Today’s Monday. I actually did it on Saturdayday.

Normally I do the weekends in advance, but I hadn’t recorded Saturday, and the news broke and I was excited about it. So if you want to hear the Grammy discussion, that’s the beginning of Saturday’s podcast, which was really, really, really really robust for a weekend episode. The nominees for Best Comedy Album are Trevor Noah, I Wish You Would Want of Psykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love, Dave Tappell What’s in a Name Again? If you want to hear my analysis of that, go back to Saturday’s episode. Whitney Cummings has her Only Fans special out this week, and yes, I was on OnlyFans earlier researching comedy like I normally do.

Oh you don’t believe me here listen, I am seven months pregnant. If I got pregnant even a year earlier, I would have sold the baby for Taylor Swift seconds. I live in LA so I get an invite to a gender reveal party every month for the same kid special. Sounds like it’s pretty funny. It is Whitney’s sixth special.

It’s called Mauthe. It’s her first for OFTV, and it’s free on OnlyFans TV November fifteenth. Whitney recently spoke to Yahoo about the evolution of her comedy and said, your comedy should be concurrent with your evolution as a person. The idea is you’re the same person on stage as you are off stage, so hopefully you’re not doing the same kind of stuff twenty years later, because I’ll look back sometimes in my first or second special and I’ll cringe a little bit. I’m like, you know what, that’s who I was at that time, and that’s okay.

I also loved how Rodney Dangerfield gave the audience a joke to go home with you could go home and the next day tell a joke at the water cooler. I was want to make sure within my act there are a couple jokes that can easily repeat the next day at work and be the funny person, Like I saw the spars of this comic last night. Here’s this joke, and you get to make everybody laugh. There’s so many even if they’re not comics, there’s so many memes. There’s so many little one liners.

People send memes to each other every day, and they send these tweets. So now I’m gonna go a little more conversational. Now I’m gonna tell these stories that no one else can tell. I’m going to get more specific. I am going to get more personal.

Okay, you’re curious. I wound up seeing the Beach Boys on Saturday night. I was going back and forth, should I see Jimmy Card down on Philly or the Beach Boys right by my house? And around five o’clock, oh, a ticket popped up and it was in Rowe Jays. I had a really nice seat for the Beach Boys.

I’m a huge Beach Boys fan. Mike Love is eighty two and I’m like, you should probably go see him nudgs nudge, wink wink, Saintamore, know what I mean. I’d made a similar decision to go see Jimmy Buffett back in twenty twenty two, and I’m glad I did Mike’s hand a pretty good. I saw the Mike Love Beach Boys. I don’t know pre pandemic.

It might be ten years now, and Mike was starting to sound a little Kermit, but it was in good form on Saturday Night, so I enjoyed that. Oh and people are asking me how old the crowd was older than old? Your parents were there. I don’t know how old you are, but it was your parents, it was George Costanza’s parents. It was every old person, stereotype, senior citizens knocking people over, didn’t care.

I had a really good time.

Also on Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live, and Ron DeSantis now being playe…

In one sketch, a woman complaining to her doctor played by bow and Yang, that she’s been seeing a mysterious figure in her sleep every night. The doctor uses a new therapy to conjure the image while the woman is awake. Timothy Shalomey appears in a white tank top, baggy blue pants, and wavy blonde hair and says, I’m Australian YouTube twink turned to indie pop star and model turned hbo octor Troy Siven being played by an American actor who can’t do an Australian accent. The woman asks isn’t he kind of famous? And Bowen Yang says he’s gay famous, It’s different.

The Simpsons have responded to the notion that Homer has stopped choking Bort Simpson. Matt Greening has a duole. The image features Bart holding up a phone that says Simpsons, no more strangling. Homer strangles him and says, why you little clickbaiting. The producers also included a note that said Homer Simpson was unavailable for comment he was busy strangling Bart.

The nine hundred pound Gorilla was catching a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival. Some really really, really enthusiastic writing to the point where I was like, all right, who wrot this? Well? Who wrote it was Eric Farwell. Eric is a freelance journalist who’s been covering comedy since twenty fifteen with pieces in the Atlantic and Vanity Fair.

So okay, this isn’t somebody who just woke out of bed and went, let me write flowing things about comedy. So I’ll take this as a respected opinion. Eric Farwell writes, Eagle Wit ran a long set that proved just how great he is. Bad writing here would be to tell you he’s like Michael Jay or Sam Jay or nineties two thousand Chappelle or Chris Rock because really, egle Witt is his own frequency of comedian, engaging with cultural topics. Sure he is truly brilliant jokes that can seem edgy, and is also inviting intimacy and honesty in this work, Witt isn’t trying to position himself as the version was all the answers, but somebody who wants to Paris Sochet was next.

There’s a contest to see who New York’s funniest comedian is, and if that’s the only metric we’re going for, Paris should win. High praise there. Not only did she run material she’d never performed before, she made it look effortless and crushed so hard the writer says, I lost my breath laughing. She told one joke so dirty, I’m not going to share it with you. The confidence, it’s an absolute perfection of Sachet’s language and structure, made her time in Unforgettable ten minutes.

Eric Farwell writes, if you’re very, very very lucky, you’ll see Britney Corney perform stand up one day. There’s no one who can match her ability to be funny, interesting and illustrative on stage. Most of stand up is a version of the truth, but Corney has such a distinct voice in place she’s operating from that it feels like a one to one of actual experience to joke on stage. Her interest is history, language, and zoology, allowing her to weld academic panache, sweet nerdiness, and jokes so good it borders on sacrilegious. Well.

For example, she has a bit about dating records and the tempo of steel drum music that has a punchline that refers to her date as a pigeon of a man. Firewell wrights Jay Jorden was undeniable. In his set, Jordan has this great syncopated delivery as a Joe continues making a meal out of the end vowels without it impacting the rhythm. It’s so good that it becomes intuitive after his sets, the way earworms convince you this one song as the epitome of music. He’s getting too big for one borrow meaning Brooklyn and his getting ahead can only be good for comedy.

And then Gary Goleman took the stage. Sitting in the back, comics gathered behind me, writes, farwell to watch as I’ve always known comics to do with Goldman. Yeah, that’s side praise when the comics watch the other comics. Goleman is free on stage, not because he doesn’t care, but because he cares so much that he’s taken the time to learn how to harness and is something close to perfect. The crowd laughed at jokes about the intellectual anxiety, and in Oppenheimer screening Harlem and Jesus workshopping his speeches, what they heard was pure poetry.

The Only Times did a lengthy, very interesting interview with mo A mayor mo Is Palestinian. They discussed the current conflict Mohmayer said, the sad part is the fundamental issues have not changed. It’s not the first time Gaza has been under bombardment. It’s not the first time the West Bank is experiencing this kind of settler violence. It’s all elevated and heightened.

Of course, it’s not anything new, So it doesn’t shift the perspective on the show, meaning his wonderful television show MO as much as you would think. It just puts the pressure on us to make sure that we execute it to the best of our ability and we amplify the humanity of it all. We’re all realizing how incredibly important this show is. The fact that it’s literally the only TV show with a Palestinian family and a Palestinian lead co creator at the head, MO created a show with comedian Irami Usef, makes it super important to do this story justice. It’s an amazing opportunity to humanize and to create more understanding and to give people a point of reference.

All right, will the current situation be acknowledged? On season two of MO, most said, clearly, what happened on October seventh is a tragedy. Any loss of civilian life is a tragedy. Period While there’s no way to move forward and build a story without acknowledging what’s happening in the world, it’s awesome possible to know how things will unfold. I mean, what’s the world going to look like in a year when the show drops.

We can’t tell the future, but we could speak about the seventy five years that has build up to where we are now, and we’ll definitely be examining Israeli Palestinian relationships through our characters. The only times asked Moa Mayre on a personal level, how are you holding up? Most said, it’s been a whole month now, and it’s excruciating. Every day I wake up with a sick feeling of my stomach, but also with gratitude for what I have. I have an immense amount of worry for my people back home.

I’m worried about what this will all escalate into, because it seems like there’s no end to the violence. In the bombardment in Gaza. There’s been a lot of extremist settler violence in the West Bank. They’re armed and taking over town, so I’m deeply concerned about that too. The only time said, there’s that old adage that trauma is the bedrock of great comedy.

Mo said that all Palestinian should be hilarious. How about a ceasefire so we could turn in some scripts. Hollywood is waiting. We’ll make sure to get some good zingers in there too. Most comedy is fantastic.

Mo is a good show that one’s on Netflix doing that off the top of my head, very good show. A new comedy vertical is coming to streaming platform VEEPS, featuring new specials from David Cross, Brad Williams, Catherine Ryan and Reggie Watts. Not Bad. Veeps will also be the streaming home for sets from sketch Fest twenty twenty four. The upcoming specials are David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World November twenty seventh, Brad Williams Starfish on December twenty first, Katherine Ryan Missus November seventeenth and Reggie Watts in twenty twenty four and Blair soci Live from the Big Dog December first.

John Clees has been out and about a lot lately. He was talking about Monty Python’s Flying Circus and said the BBC just let us get on with it because it was so cheap and it went out so late, except when they were putting out the Horse of the Year show instead, which they did quite a lot. At the start, they didn’t bother to watch it, so there was no supervision. And it wasn’t because they were enlightened. It’s because we weren’t important.

Cleese is pushing back on our report that had said the new stage version of Monty Python’s Life of Brian would not include the famous scene where Stan, a member of the People’s Front of Judea, declares that he wants to be a woman and have babies at a live show. Clees had mentioned in the audience that had a reading of the script in New York the actors had objected to the scene on the grounds it was transphobic, but Clee said, but I never said I was taking out of the show, and suddenly there were debates on TV about it. He then told a story from nineteen sixty six about writers not checking facts. He said, I remember being interviewed by the Observer in sixty six and the writer has said that my father had been in the church, which is terribly funny and quite incorrect. But she’d misread her own notes in the church apparently looks very close to in insurance.

She apologized and said it didn’t matter if Kate. You’re curious why John clees and retire, he says the genuine reason is financial. After his third divorce, the settlement was twenty million dollars, John said, I’d like to buy a place in the sun before i’d die, or at least a place in the sun where I could be buried. There are a whole lot of things I’d like to be doing, reading, writing and thinking about and you can’t really do it when you’re busy doing interviews to sell tickets that your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, I want you to tell somebody about it.

They might like it too. Nudge nudge and wink wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. Fill the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, overcast podcasts See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big article about how stand up comedy has never been bigger. Comedians are setting records for attendance. Take Nate Pergadsey, for example, who earlier this year set an Amazon streaming record before going on to sell a record number of tickets to a show at Nashville’s Bridge Done Arena. Yeah, remember he sold one extra seat to break the record.

He also brought ESNL it’s highest rated episode of the season and easily the best episode of the season. They talk about Matt Rife, a quote young up and comer with ten plus years under his belt. Pick one, who hit the upper echelons of comedy seemingly overnight after blowing up on TikTok.

Also operating at the highest level as Gabe Fluffy Iglesias, who sold out Dod…

According to German data gathering platform Statista, I put a little Latin spin on that is Germans would say Statista, where they’d be like Stastata or something mean sounding. Anyway, those guys say yearly revenue from the comedy market in the US has increased from one point seven billion dollars in twenty seventeen to three point one billion in twenty twenty three. Paul Star’s top touring comic of twenty twenty two was Do you want to Guess? It? Was Sebastian Manescalco at over forty four point nine million dollars whoo.

Deadline spoke to a few comedians, including Trevor Wallace, whose debut special Terodactyl debuts on Prime Video November fourteenth. That’s Tuesday. Trevor says, stand up is cool again. I feel like ten fifteen years ago you would kind of go, oh, there’s comedy on the cruise. We could stop by.

But now it’s like all these clubs are packed every night. Fahim Anwar says, the way people were excited to discover bands, people are excited to discover new comedians, and that never existed before. The conversation turned to Late Night. Fahim said, Late Night’s great. I grew up with it, but it did feel a little more antiquated after the pandemic, right, there’s something about it.

COVID kind of accelerated its dissent, but it’s still fun. I don’t know it’s a story, Ki, It’s like baseball at this point. Fortune Fimestra ass what does Late Night look like going into this new era podcast or interviewing everybody all the time. So what they did that was unique, now everybody’s doing it in some fashion. Deadline asked the comedians about the trade off between licensing your stand up special or producing yourself and keeping the rights.

Fortune said, I think people have to decide what they want to do, what they want to invest in. Are they okay with paying for the production costs? This business is all about looking down the road. What’s the big picture. If your big picture is to make money off a special, then that’s not the way to go.

If your big picture is I want all these eyes on it, I want to sell tickets, then that’s an option. Andrew Santino said, you want to own your own material. I think the music industry taught us one thing about owning your own IP. Not to talk crap, but yeah, Comedy Central, for a long time you were kind of a slave to their game, and that worked at the time. But now it’s changing for the better.

So people get to own their own stuff, distribute how they want. That only opens us up for more opportunities. Whereas a movie in a sitcom deal was once the be all end all for comics, that’s not necessarily the case any longer. Faiman War said, I’ve been doing stand up and live long enough to see it change. It’s weird because the blueprint was the same for so long and things have changed at light speed in the last ten fifteen years, and I think it’s liberating.

I think it. But who’s the stand up comedian? Because back in the day you had to be the whacky neighbor on a sitcom or have a sitcom for people to come to see you do the road, whereas now that’s not the case. It’s almost a hindrance. I have friends and stuff who were on sitcoms and they couldn’t draw on the road just because pop culture is so fractured and segmented.

Now things are getting very very niche, so acting has become less integral to our job. Sam morel So the Columbus Underground. I wish I was just better at sitting in front of a computer and writing. Occasionally I’ll come up with stuff. I used to be really good at it.

Now I think a lot of my jokes come from just like walking around doing stuff and then I’m like, wait, this could be funny.

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And then sometimes I’ll just write it down.

And sometimes I’ll be with somebody and I say, and I kind of gauge your reaction, and either way, even if they don’t laugh, I write it down because if I think it’s funny, maybe there’s something I can do with it.

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And then I just throw it in like a word dock and try to punch it up, make it …

I’m pretty bad. Sometimes they get stuck in a routine and you’re just like airport. White comedians have so many airport jokes. Well, that’s where we are constantly, so you do need new experiences. I went out on vacation, which I never do.

You get some joke ideas out of that, a little open up different parts of your brain, you know. I never thought about that about the airport. Very insightful. The aforementioned Matt Rife was on Jimmy Fallon during the week. Raife talked about doing comedy for eleven years, not being able to get a special or get a TV show, not even being able to get on the Tonight show.

Raife said these things just wearing adding up and a certain point you go, am I delusional? Maybe I’m not funny, maybe I’m not supposed to do this, And then just one random video kind of changed everything. Raife said. He reluctantly began posting videos on TikTok At the beginning of twenty twenty two. He was invited to Just for Laughs in Montreal.

Later that year, an improv comedy show he started with comedian Paul Elia was invited to Just for Last Montreal, but not the Matt Rife part. Oh Ouch. Organizers told him he could perform, but they wouldn’t pay him for his work or pay for his travel at all. He sucked up his pride and went anyway. He had an edited video called The Lazy Hero ready to post, but was feeling pretty down, starting to wonder what the point was.

A friend told him go ahead and post it since was already edited. They went out for the night. The video went quote insanely viral over the next couple of days, got twenty to thirty million views. Where I’ve said, it’s been unreal. My entire life has changed in a matter of fourteen months.

I’m so grateful, going from playing clubs for thirty five people who got free tickets to breaking ticket Master is insane. Good for him. I’ve listened to a few interviews with him. He seems really grounded. Westward to ask Jay Farrow what inspired him to get in a comedy and do impressions, Jay said, I started doing impressions when I was six.

The kids at private school were corny. I would just roast and cook everybody because I realized, y’all aren’t gangsters. All your parents at Bentley’s and your members of the country club. There’s no gangster stuff going down with you. Once it game to that realization, I just started getting up in front of my friends to perform.

What are your favorite impressions? He says, I don’t really have a list, but I like when people asked me to do the obscure ones like John Mulaney, Jason Momoa, Jason Statham, or Joaquin Phoenix. I like those because they’ve been asked a million times to do Kevin Hard. I’ve been asked twenty million times to do Ddie Murphy. I’ve been asked forty or fifty million times to do Denzel and Barack.

So when I get a chance to do the weird ones, it’s much more rewarding for me as a performer. Apparently, Kamil nan Gianni has good watch game. This from the rob Report. Kamil was playing at the Ice House Comedy Club in Basadena and the robber Report noticed he was wearing a watch, specifically a two tone GMT watch reference number sixteen seventy fifty three, which, as you know, hails from the early eighties and mostly follows the design ethos of its direct predecessor, the sixteen seventy five, which debuted in the seventies. Yeah, everybody knows that, Robber Report.

Come on, everyone knows that. For those of you who don’t, both feature a forty millimeters stainless steel case that’s capped by acrylic crystal no kidding, a yellow gold crown and matching gold bezel ring. The dark brown nibble dial includes protruding hour markers alongside Rolex’s signature Mercedes hands and a cyclop state window at three o’clock. All that and circled, of course by a striking split colored brown and gold bezel insert that’s become synonymous with the root beer nickname. As you guys know, the sixteen seventy three five is no longer produced, but you can get a pre owned one via Bob’s Watches.

It will just run you twelve four hundred ninety five dollars. The Robber Report add if you want to complete the Camail Nanjiohnny look, who was wearing a blue knit polo, you can get that at Todd’s Nighter four one hundred and sixty nine bucks. Final day of the New York Comedy Festival. Zarna Garg plays Chelsea at three point thirty seven o’clock. Good Eggs presented by Mark Norman to Gary Veder and Matt Ruby.

That’s a Grammar seat. Brett Goldstein at the Beacon at eight, Andrew de Smuke’s at the New York Comedy Club East Village at eight, and a bunch of smaller shows. And once again I could delete a book mark. As I mentioned yesterday, my browser gets quite crowded. Steve Martin took to Instagram.

He’s happy that his book was banned by the Florida Public School System. Steve Martin instead so proud of my book Shopgirl Band in Collier County, Florida. Now people who want to read it will have to buy a copy. Tommy Tiernan shared a terrifying mid air experience. So there’s Tommy.

He’s on the plane, he’s minding his own business, and suddenly a passenger attempts to open the plane’s door. According to Tommy, he heard roaring and shouting before watching the person try to open the aircraft’s door were mid air. Tommy said the person in question shouted, I’m not a terrorist as he was tackled to the floor. Tommy said, I would suspect he’d either taken a drug a couple of days beforehand and was now in the horrors and wanted to get off the plane, or he’d taken something getting on the plane thinking it’d be great to crack, crack being an Irish slang term for fun. The edibles are everywhere in California.

The captain then made an announcement to inform passengers of an incident on board and was forced to reroot to Winnipeg. Apparently, the police handcuffed the man before removing him from the plane. Tommy said, we landed in Winnipeg and the police came on. He was a bit sad and concerned, but he wasn’t fit for flying. He was more than drugged and more than hungover.

He was a stranger to himself. He wasn’t right in the head. Everybody was relieved when he left, and everybody felt sorry for him. But once you start to open the safety door, you know, California was a treat lads. Tommy McNamara’s debut comedy special and new album Smoldering, now available on YouTube and via a special Thing Records courted live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn.

You can hear Tommy’s stories about free hot dogs leading to Diet’s Harry rock Bottom becoming a regular at the Shell Station, and bonfire misapps. Tommy McNamara Smoldering. I was checking out some clips. It’s pretty good. John Klees is at the Peoria Civic Center tonight.

I love the title of a show. It is called an Evening with the Late John Klees. The show’s framed as a funeral for John. He pokes fun at false reports about his own death earlier in twenty twenty three, Clees jokes, I died several weeks ago, and you’ve probably read about it in the papers. But fortunately I was able to rise again on a third day, which is an old trick which my maternal grandmother taught me which is very useful because I need the money.

John said, when I go out on stage, the people who hate me haven’t bought tickets. Only the people who like me have bought tickets. I always got a lovely, warm reception. If I made everybody laugh in the past, then I’ll make them laugh on the evening. In question, part of the show is a Q and A John said, a lot of the mask about Monty Python.

I’ll ask who my favorite python is and who’s gonna die next. There’s all sorts of dark humor that I enjoy, and we always get something about what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I looked it up, roughly twenty point one miles per hour. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, popc Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocketcast, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with a very robust Daily Comedy News for a Saturday. In particular, the nominees for Best Comedy Album Grammy are out. The nominees are Trevor Noah, I wish you would, Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, someone you Love? And Dave Chappelle.

What’s in a name? If you’ve been listening for years, you know I have a pet peeve about the best comedy album. My personal opinion is best comedy album should be, you know, an album. I know what an album is when I see it. They used to come on vinyl, then CD, then digital release.

To me, a comedy album is not a Netflix special. That’s something else. I’m not sure what the latest rules are, but as of twenty twenty one, the rules and guidelines for Best Comedy Album included album’s quote part as a video project. So the Grammys do not agree with me. I understand why they do this, but I don’t know.

I wish an album were an album. Let’s look at the breakdown. Trevor Noah, I wish you would. When I saw that I was like, wait, what, There’s a Trevor Noah comedy album and I googled it. It’s a comedy special that came out in video back in twenty twenty two.

Wand of Sikes. I’m an entertainer. I could see it winning, but I didn’t enjoy it. Chris Rock selective outrage could be a very pointed pick and would make the awards ceremony very very interesting. Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love?

I like that special lot. Dave Chappelle, What’s in a name? Are we going to give a Grammy to Dave Chappelle and open up the whole transgender conversation again? That could be interesting. If you are curious what has won in the past, let me remind you last year Dave Chappelle for The Closer.

The year before Louis C.K. So it’s not like the Grammys are afraid of a little controversy. Could Chappelle go back to back? Tiffany Attis in twenty one, Chappelle in twenty twenty, Chappelle in twenty nineteen, Chappelle in twenty eighteen, Wow, Pat Oswald talking for clapping in twenty seventeen c K and sixteen weird Owl Mandatory Fun in fifteen. I did like that album a lot.

I’m not gonna call that a Lifetime Achievement Award. That was a very very strong album by weird Al twenty fourteen, Kathy Griffin Calm Down Girl twenty thirteen. I’ll let you guess. For ten years you will never remember what won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty thirteen. This beat out Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, Kathy Griffin, A TENACIOUSD You’re Winner in twenty thirteen, Jimmy Fallons Blow Your Pants Off CK one in twelve, Lewis Black and eleven.

Stephen Colbert A Colbert Christmas won in twenty ten. What a weird pick That beat out Kathy Griffin, George Lopez, Batten Hossballd, Spinal Tap, Back from the Dead, and a weird Al Internet Leagus album George Carlin won in two thousand and nine. George passed away June of two thousand and eight. Flight of the Concords in two thousand and eight, Lewis Black and O seven, Chris Rocks Never Scared in O six two thousand and five. John Stewart in the cast of The Daily Show for The Daily Show with John Steward presents America a Citizen’s guy to democracy in action.

That’s a terrible pick. The other nominees also terrible, Ellen de Generous, Al Franken, David Sedaris, and Triumph. I probably would have given it to Triumph two thousand and four, Weird Owl’s Poodle Hat two thousand and three, Robin Williams Live on Broadway two thousand and two, Carlin two thousand and one, Carlin two thousand, Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, and we don’t need to go back to last century. At the New York Comedy Festival, the Scleroderma Research Foundation at its Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine tribute to Bob Saget they raised more than one point two million dollars for the SRF. Congrats.

Jeff Ross kicked off the night, then Ronny Chieng went up, Nikki Glaser, Michael Chay, two of the Counting Crows did a rendition of a long December great song. Singer Adam Duritz shared that was a favorite of Bob Saggett. Bob’s widow, Kelly Rizzo said the fact that everybody’s still showing up for Bob means so much. We’re all trying to do our best without him. Jeff Ross said, I miss Bob.

We’re keeping his name alive. If you knew Bob, the real Bob was the guy who hosted this event. You never saw Bob cry unless it was at this event. See the inside of Bob is hard. At this event, he had a passion for the Sclidermer community.

He’d be proud of this tonight. He’d be proud of Kelly, his nephew Adam, and his daughters. Dave Chappelle spotted outside the Comedy Seller on Wednesday night. Apparently Dave popped in and did a set. The Daily Mail didn’t report on the set at all, but they said Dave stood under the Comedy Seller’s sign in a blank tech top that showcased his chiseled arms.

Dave wore a silver and black luxury wristwatch. I challenged you to say luxury wristwatch even once. I can’t do it. You have no idea how many takes I just took out. The comedian sported a shaved head and had a chain dangling for his neck and grinned while posing for a photo with DJ Seipher sounds The Rock says he really doesn’t want to be the president.

There was a poll that said forty six percent of Americans would vote for The Rock. The Rock was on Trivor Noah’s new podcast, and The Rock says, that was an interesting poll that happened. I was really moved by that, and I was really blown away. I was really honored. At the end of the year in twenty twenty two, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run and if I could run.

It was a big deal that came out of the blue, and it was one after the other. They brought up that poll. They also brought up their own deep dive research that would prove should I ever decide to go down that road. But The Rock told Trevor Noah, matter of fact, there’s a lot of things about politics that I hate. The Minneapolis Star Tribune caught Trevor Noah’s show at the Orpheum.

The heart of his current act. They tell us consists of stories about MLK, Junior German history, Columbus Day, and national anthems. One bit apparently hinged on knowing at least a little about Andrew Jackson’s treatment of his slaves, they write. His delivery is as gutsy as his choice of material. Most comics panic if they go twenty seconds without getting a laugh.

Not Trevor. Noah. He’s willing to dedicate more than a minute to setting up a joke, a risky stunt that paid off over and over again. During a lengthy Q and A at the end, he responded to questions about his love life, Donald Trump’s legal troubles, and Trevor’s decision to wear a shirt from H and M. Pathan McDonald is like super hot lately told you the other day somebody had named her like the comedian to watch, or the next great Thing, or whatever she was deemed.

ABC News caught up with her. She talked about launching a podcast after she heard a fellow comic a launched a podcast to get his name out there and sell more tickets. Heather said, I was like, if a podcast can help do that, I’m gonna do that, and she launched Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald back in twenty fifteen. Heather strives to be anything but divisive, but despite her best efforts, she found herself in the middle of a debate about the coronavirus vaccine after she collapsed during a twenty twenty two stand up set in Arizona. Footage of her fainting was used in a video compilation that pedaled misinformation about vaccine side effects.

Before she collapsed, Heather jokes she had never contracted the virus. Heather says, I fainted right after that, and I have never fainted before or after. She says she still hasn’t had the virus and is indeed vaccinated, and says the video has done nothing but hurt my career because the pro vaccination people think I’m like a puppet for the anti vaxxers, and the anti vaxxers call me names for getting vaccinated. I say, everyone make decisions for themselves, and I have no say in the matter. The Flyover Comedy Festival wraps up in Saint Louis today.

They have a wonderful grid where you can see all the shows on one nice screen. I wish all comedy festas would do this. Some of the more famous people today seven o’clock Jeff Ross, nine o’clock Janelle Jeames, and ten o’clock Shane Tours. There are a bunch of other shows. It looks like that was a really good festival.

I can now delete the bookmark. My browser tab gets quite full with all these festivals. Let’s go to this other bookmark the New York Comedy Festival. See what’s going on tonight. The second Saturday of the festival is usually the big big nights.

They don’t have a grid, so I have to scroll down. Todd Barry is at the Bell House at four point thirty. That’s a cool time. I don’t know what I’m gonna do tonight. The Beach Boys are playing by my house and Jimmy Carr is down in Philadelphia, and I’m tempted to do both, and there’s a good chance I do neither, because I am so wiped out from last weekend’s event, which I won’t mention.

David Kegner plays Chelsea Music Hall at six thirty. Donnell Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven. It’s Goo on Coska seven o’clock, Town Hall, Brett Goldstein Beacon seven o’clock. So many good shows. Shamilton and Improvised Hip Hop Musical at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective at seven, Steph Tolv at the Bell House seven thirty.

Irene to Hew at Union Hall, seven thirty Nathan McIntosh The Down with Tech Tour, Grammercya seven thirty, Mittel Lane, Carnegie Hall, eight o’clock Matteo Lane can Fill Carnegie Hall. Wow Wow, I would have bet a dollar against that. Sophie Sucker’s Sophie Sucks Face, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. David Keckner, Chelsea Music Hall eight thirty, Otsgo Again at nine thirty, don Ell Again at nine forty five, D’ll say Sloan Grammar Sya ten thirty. The LA Times has been standing up for LA Comics at the New York Comedy Festival.

They want us to go see Nicky Paris, who’s at the Lori Beachman Theater at nine thirty. Before moving to LA in twenty eighteen, Staten Island native Nicky Paris only dreamed of headlining the NYCF Fresh to Stand Up as a teen. His love of Joan Rivers brought him to the Lorie Beachman Theater one of her workout rooms as an audience member. Does that math work out? How old is Nicky Paris?

All right? It here as Nicky Paris was born Christmas Eve of nineteen ninety two. Jon’s been gone a minute? Now, when did Joan die? Joan passed away twenty fourteen.

So if Joan did a live show, say a month before she passed away, and you were born in nineteen ninety two, you could be twenty two and see Joan Rivers. Okay, the math does work out, Johnny Mack, why don’t you shut up and leave Nicky Parris alone? Separate from the festivals, Rory Scovel is taping his next special tonight at the Cows Center in Minneapolis. A lot of Minneapolis talk this week. Neil Brennan’s at the Fonda Theater in la also taping a special.

Marlon Wayans also also also taping a special at the Apollo. And is that not part of the New York Comedy Festival. There’s a move. I’m gonna take my special in the middle of the festival and not be part of the festival. But the festival had other shows at the Apollo.

But I just regular list. I didn’t see his name there. Who knows? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube.

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